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Wagilak Man

This striking piece depicts the Wagilak Man, carved from a Kapok tree sourced locally, and detail finished in acrylic paints. The Wagilak Man is an important story for James’s clan and is depicted with a removable spear, bondok or woomera, and dimbooka or dilly bag. Naga or loin cloth has also been constructed from the Kapok inner-bark. This same material (Kapok inner-bark) has traditionally been used to create bush string, and in this instance has been used to secure Laarda or spear blade to the spear, bondock to its tip, and dimbooka to hang from the shoulder.

Raark or fine line work has been completed using a handmade Jarlk reed brush harvested from local billabongs and wet areas.

Categories: Djilpin Arts Aboriginal Corporation

Name: James Mitjpunun Malibirr

Language: Ganalbiŋu

Community: Gapuwiyak

Biography:

James has been creating art since he was a little boy, he estimates around the age of sixteen. Taught by his father, uncle and adopted father, he learned through sitting, watching and absorbing traditional techniques, knowledge and stories. As James asked about certain stories being painted, his teachers made sure to teach him to only tell the right culture and the right story, as culture is important and it is wrong to tell someone else's story.

Artistic through a variety of mediums including canvas, carving, and yidaki (didj), Jame's recurrent themes are fish and billabong tucker, as well as stone blade paintings which is his mothers story.

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