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Njá-barawarra Na-míbba (Hammerhead shark) and Dilly Bag

A mixed design featuring four of Joy’s most popular lino tiles.

Categories: Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation

Name: Joy Garlbin

Language: Ndjébbana

Community: Maningrida

Biography:

Joy is an integral member of the Bábbarra Women’s Centre and traditional owner of Maningrida.

She has been around since the early years of Bábbarra Women’s Centre. Joy is a textile artist and also a highly regarded bark painter, creator of mimi spirits, as well as weaver of pandanus fibre.

Joy depicts the story of her ancestral dreaming the Djomi in her textile work, with permission from her djunguys.

Joy is a Kunibidji woman.  She speaks Kunibidji and Ndjébbana. These languages are one language but with hard and soft tonal differences. Ndjébbana is one of the least commonly spoken languages in Arnhem Land and is the language of the traditional owners of Maningrida.

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