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Kungkarrangkalpa (Seven Sisters) – Angilyiya Mitchell ‘Kungkarrangkalpa’ (The Seven Sisters or Pleaides) is significant Tjukurrpa (dreamtime). Its origins you may be familiar with in astronomy and its connection to ‘Wati Nyiru’ (Magic Man or Orion).  The roots of this dreaming stems across indigenous groups around the world. The Australian Aboriginal Read more…

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Rainbow Serpent (Dungala Dreaming) In my culture many years ago a magical event occurred the rainbow serpent covered and or travelled over 2500 km along the Murray River transforming the landscapes that we know today, passing through many traditional boundaries connecting, people, water and the land. 

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Mandjabu Kuninjku people traditionally make two sorts of conical fish traps. One called Mandjabu made from milil a vine. And another smaller one called manyilk Mandjabu, made from the grass manylik. The milil conical fish trap is bigger and stronger and used in tidal reaches of creeks to catch large Read more…

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