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Tjulpu Palya, Kuru Pulka, Mulya Pulka (Good Bird, big eyes, big nose).
Digitally printed in Australia on 100% combed cotton with regular fit.
T-shirts are available in two styles. Maple style is shorter in length and sleeve (more of a woman’s cut). Staple is longer in sleeve and length (unisex).
Status: Stock
Tjulpu Palya, Kuru Pulka, Mulya Pulka (Good bird, big eyes, big nose).
Digitally printed in Australia on 100% combed cotton with regular fit.
T-shirts are available in two styles. Maple style is shorter in length and sleeve (more of a woman’s cut). Staple is longer in sleeve and length (unisex).
Status: Stock
“Two Redtails kissing, others looking, big mob makin’ big noise and the chatter of the ‘Red Bums’ saying ‘I’m Coming, I’ve got to find a nest.'”
Digitally printed in Australia on 100% combed cotton with regular fit.
Kids sizes 4-8, Youth sizes 8-16
Status: Stock
“Two Redtails kissing, others looking, big mob makin’ big noise and the chatter of the ‘Red Bums’ saying ‘I’m Coming, I’ve got to find a nest.'”
Digitally printed in Australia on 100% combed cotton with regular fit.
T-shirts are available in two styles. Maple style is shorter in length and sleeve (more of a woman’s cut). Staple is longer in sleeve and length (unisex).
Status: Stock
“Two Redtails kissing, others looking, big mob makin’ big noise and the chatter of the ‘Red Bums’ saying ‘I’m Coming, I’ve got to find a nest.'”
Digitally printed in Australia on 100% combed cotton with regular fit.
T-shirts are available in two styles. Maple style is shorter in length and sleeve (more of a woman’s cut). Staple is longer in sleeve and length (unisex).
Status: Stock
The artwork is a drawing of Rungutjirpa (Simpson Gap). Charles has drawn from memory, a unique perspective with intricate line work to capture the multitude directions of the rock layers.
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Bonya Life
This is my old man’s [Rover Thomas] story about Cyclone Tracy in Darwin in 1974, two years after I was born.
Rover got his joonba, Goorirr Goorirr , from this Cyclone. Out near that store [Warmun’s Wungkul store] a woman had a crash and she went and visited my old man in a dream.
When I was first learning how to paint I was following my father and looking at him. I was looking after him and painting when he was at the old people home and I used to paint.
The Goorirr Goorirr was found by Rover in 1975, not long after the disastrous Cyclone Tracy had all but destroyed Darwin, the nearest large population centre to Turkey Creek. It came to him in his Dreams over period of time. As he shared the knowledge he had gained in this way, its significance was recognised. Out of this emerged the community celebration of Goorirr Goorirr. In the next few years Goorirr Goorirr was regularly performed at Turkey Creek and taken to other communities as well.
Story Inspired by Jack Britten- Dwayne Jessell’s adopting father.
This is my father’s country- Jack Britten
The hills in the foreground are the limestone hills found in Purnululu (the Bungle Bungles). The red hills behind are the brilliant shining cliffs that are seen at sunset anywhere in the Kimberley on a west-facing wall.
Here Dwayne Jessel has painted Piccinniny Gorge on the side of the Bungle Bungles, Purnululu.
He says, These are all the fruits around that country. Picinniny River with all the rocks.
There are a big mob of gorges round Bungle Bungle area. I’ve done two of them here, Picinniny Gorge and the other is Cathedral Gorge.
Key: D
Toot: E
Tuned for Mularra ceremony.
Didjeridus from this region are made in the West Arnhem style. Called Mago, they’re different and special and follow the tradition made famous by Beswick’s Mago Master, elder David Blanasi.
Ghunmarn didjeridus are sourced on country, and hand cut from Woolybutt trees. Artists travel considerable distances on foot to find the right woolybutt tree naturally hollowed out by termites. Good instruments are hand-cut and taken back to camp to be worked, shaped, sanded, tuned and then finally painted.
These are top quality musical instruments, highly regarded worldwide, and still used in ceremony and performance today. Featuring traditional designs handed painted with a Jarlk grass brush.
Most Ghunamrn didjeridus are high pitch D, low pitch D, F, C or G. The longer the dij the lower the pitch, a shorter didj will give a higher sound.