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Ngangkin (Echidna)
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Rainforest Parrot
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Basket Weaving
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Basket Weaving
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Kurranji (Cassowary)
The cassowary was a precious food source for our ancestors. They used the feathers for ceremonies and weavings, and made their skins into blankets.
I have chosen the cassowary for this vessel because it is my partner’s totem. He performs the cassowary dance in public ceremonies. It was bestowed on him by his mother’s sister when he was a young boy. In 1997 he went with the Yalanji Dance Group to Hong Kong to perform the Cassowary dance there.”
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Dugongs & Peoples
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Turtles with Eggs & Dugongs
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Whitty Grub
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Sugar Bag Bee
This handmade Sugarbag Bee sculpture is crafted from a combination of paperbark bound with black wattle bark. Internally speargrass makes up the body or stuffing, while externally the piece is finished in natural ochre sourced from long distances away. Ochre is ground, and then bonded onto the sculpture using a fixative and modern paintbrush. Wings, legs and antennae are carved from Put-Put or Kurrajong.