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Mukirr Dance 3 (Women’s Business)
Mukirr dance is about when I would go with my mum, aunties and other family to the Daintree River to harvest freshwater mussels. Using our feet on the river bed, we would feel where the mussels were. Once we located them we would dive to collect them. We used our dresses as holding vessels. Once our dresses were full, we would swim to the bank and off-load to another family member who would get them ready to eat by putting them on the fire. When the ladies were feeling with their feet, it would look like they were dancing in the water. Mukirr means mussels, that is why this artwork is called ‘Mukirr Dance’. The Mukirr dance to me represents my mother, aunties and older cousins as well as many other Yalanji women of the past because this was an important part of people’s life. Today, some ladies still collect mussels up in the shallow area of the Daintree River.
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