Almost exactly a year ago, walking through the Seattle Art Museum with my uncle, I stopped cold in front of a piece of art called “Munurru,” or “Rough,” by Aboriginal Australian artist Galuma Maymuru.

In Aboriginal Australian mythology, the Seven Sisters were celestial women — the Pleiades — who descended to earth and were relentlessly pursued by the shape-shifting sorcerer Wati Nyiru. Fleeing ...

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