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About the Design Sizing Chart and Care   This Australian Aboriginal dot print features slick maroon snakes winding their way across a mysterious black land. Snakes appear in every ritualist art style there is from around the globe – they seem to carry a universal meaning that at once strikes both fear and awe. But there’s more: the Aboriginal artist who drew this titled it “Snake and Emu” and there is the mystery to contemplate. Where is the Emu? Is the emu the dot dot pattern drawn between snake pairs, or is there just an essence of emu in the ether? Like all ritualistic native art, Aboriginal art is highly symbolic, and only clansmen will ever know the mysteries it explains. You won’t just be wearing art when you wear this shirt, you’ll be wearing a tool for contemplation. This print is done in the Aboriginal Dot Dot painting style, (not to be confused with Ximpressionism! ) a technique which makes it seem so modern while utilizing “native” iconography. What does that translate into? It’s timeless - it will never go out of style. The subdued color palette makes for a sophisticated look, and trust us when we say, you are guaranteed to be the only person in the room wearing Aboriginal art! Our aboriginal art shirts feature prints designed by Aboriginal artists with the fabric produced in Australia. But even when I was in Australia, I never came across anything more than Aboriginal art featured on T-shirts, so we’re excited to present wearable art in such a nice shirt. Over the last ten years, I’ve finally chosen the two designs you see on our sight as two of the best. MORE ABOUT ABORGINAL ART Aboriginal art dates back to ceremonial sand paintings, utilizing seeds, flowers, sand, stones, feathers and other natural substances. Like all ceremonial art, it is full of ritual in how it is created, and highly symbolic in it’s meaning. Only male clan members were involved in creating art and allowed to know it’s sacred meaning. Even today, as Aboriginal art hits Western markets, the details behind the symbols are still kept secret within the clan. Traditional Aboriginal art can usually be categorized into three styles: X -ray art, from the Northern Territory, displays “cross-sections” of animals – showing the animal’s skeleton and viscera through stylized patterns. Check out or Skink and Frog shirt utilizing this style. Dot painting creates symbols and patterns with dots, which according to one resource I read was heavily developed after the 1970s when Aboriginal artists wanted to protect their sacred art from outsiders and began to cover their symbolic paintings with dots which helped mask the original, sacred picture. I can’t comment on the credibility of that source, but it’s an interesting story. Our Sacred Snake print is done in the dot dot style. Stenciling is the center of the third style – especially using handprints and then creating patterns around these stencils. Made in the USA. Additional keywords: Red, black, dot, snake emu, Aussie, dot dot