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An-maka (stingray)

An-maka means stingray in the Burarra Gun-nartpa language.

Name: Verity Bangarra


Language: Ndjébbana, Gunbalang


Community: Maningrida


Biography:

Verity was born in Maningrida and is a Kunibidji land owner. Her mother was from Djinkarr and her father was born at Babbarra.

Verity has 7 children from the ages of 25 to 7 and she remembers bringing the oldest to the women's centre in 1998 when it was a creche as well as a creative workshop.

Verity was taught printing by the late Helen Williams, founder of the centre. Verity's totems are Lady Dreaming and Djabayéna and she also makes work about Makéddja (Turtle). 

 

 

 


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