Janbal (Quandong)
Janbal (Quandong) is good bush tucker. We gather the fruit from August to January when they are sweet and soft. The kernel of the fruit is very pretty and we often use it to make body adornments such as necklaces and earrings.
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Janbal (Quandong)
Janbal (Quandong) is good bush tucker. We gather the fruit from August to January when they are sweet and soft. The kernel of the fruit is very pretty and we often use it to make body adornments such as necklaces and earrings.
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Janbal (Quandong)
Janbal (Quandong) is good bush tucker. We gather the fruit from August to January when they are sweet and soft. The kernel of the fruit is very pretty and we often use it to make body adornments such as necklaces and earrings.
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Darrba (Grass Wallaby)
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Janbal (Quandong)
Janbal (Quandong) is good bush tucker. We gather the fruit from August to January when they are sweet and soft. The kernel of the fruit is very pretty and we often use it to make body adornments such as necklaces and earrings.
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Janbal (Quandong)
Janbal (Quandong) is good bush tucker. We gather the fruit from August to January when they are sweet and soft. The kernel of the fruit is very pretty and we often use it to make body adornments such as necklaces and earrings.
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Kakan (Black Palm) Dillybag.
Our ancestors used Kakan (Black Palm) dilly bags to carry food when out hunting and gathering or soak bitter yams in creeks before cooking them. They were also used to hold personal items.
When I was a young girl my grandmother would teach me how to make Black Palm dillybags. We used to set up camp with other Kuku Yalanji women at a creek near Helenvale. It is very hard work. The men would help us cutting down the palm trees and separate the crownshaft from the trunk and the leaves. Then the women used to peel away the outer leaves until they felt strong threads they could pull out. They cleaned these threads from pulp with a mussel shell. When we moved away from Helenvale I forgot how to make them. Luckily years later I asked a relative of mine, Wilma Walker, who is great weaver, if she could refresh my memories. From then on I kept making dillybags as long as my health allowed it. I really enjoyed making them.
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Yalka Cake Plate (Blue)
This beautiful plate shows Daphne Marks’ Yalka – Bush Onion Tjukurrpa. The bush onion grows on the side of the road and has little purple flowers. Her works depict the different stages of the germination of the plant.
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Jigal leaf and helicopter seed pod on petrol silk – Mrs C Djiagween
Jigal leaves and helicopter pods on ‘petrol’ coloured silk by Mrs C Djiagween
Lengths of handprinted screen printed fabric on 100% silk dupion 137cm wide
The base fabric is petrol blue and is a three-colour print with tangerine, magenta and light grey coloured details.
The late Mrs C Djiagween was an esteemed Jabirr Jabirr and Yawuru Elder from the Dampier Peninsula and Broome region. Born in Beagle Bay in 1936 and she lived in Broome for many years.
Cissy had a wealth of cultural knowledge that she shared with her fellow artists and colleagues in her gentle way.
She was a founding member of Nagula Jarndu and attended art classes and workshops to develop her skills as an artist. She was influenced by the abundance of Broome’s native flora.
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Rose Coloured Glasses
This Artwork is a bright, happy, colourful contempory Indigenous painting that illustrates my personal experences and emotions. I have named this work ‘Rose Coloured Glasses’ as it shows how beautiful experences, relationships, and your surroundings can seem when you are in ‘Rose Coloured Glasses’ and always see life in a positive way. However, sometimes this mindset can obscure your “Vison” and make you “Blind” to the problems in your own life. I personally aim to always have a positive mindset but never let that blind me or hold me back.