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Status: Stock
Status: Stock
Name: Cecilia Djiagween
Community: Broome
Biography:
Mrs. Djiagween was an esteemed Jabirr Jabirr and Yawuru Elder from the Dampier Peninsula and Broome region. She was born in Beagle Bay in 1936 and lived in Broome for many years.
Mrs. Djiagween had a wealth of cultural knowledge that she shared with her fellow artists and colleagues in her very clam and gentle way.
She was a founding member of Nagula Jarndu and integral to the continuity of the art centre through her dedication to the recording and survival of cultural knowledge in a visual form.