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‘Manymak natha’ (good food)

Perfect the art of cooking in our ‘Manymak natha’ apron – it means ‘good food’! The design is made from three original artworks and features traditional Yolgnu bush foods from both freshwater and saltwater sources.

Cotton drill apron with pocket and adjustable straps.

ARTISTS

• Nyoka (crab), Benjamin Garrawurra
• Wuldulbal/badju (bream), JB Fisher
• Dakawa (yabby), Peter Gambung 

Manymak (very good)!

This product helps build a sustainable source of income for Yolŋu artists and art workers at Bula’Bula Arts.

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Lorrpu (Sulphur-crested Cockatoo) by Angela Malibirr

• Screenprinted tea towel with Lorrpu (Sulphur-crested Cockatoo) design 
• 100% linen
• 70 x 50cm
• Available in black and flax colours 

Manymak (very good)! This product helps build a sustainable source of income for Yolŋu artists and art workers at Bula’Bula Arts.

ARTWORK STORY

Lorrpu (Sulphur-crested Cockatoo) are a totemic species significant to the Gupapuyngu clan of the Yirritja moiety. They are represented through storylines and songlines during ceremonial practises. Lorrpu can be found in large flocks across the Arafura Swamp.

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Banami (brolga) by Billy Black

Screenprinted tea towel with Banami (brolga) design
100% linen
70 x 50cm
Available in black and flax colours 

Manymak (very good)! This product helps build a sustainable source of income for Yolŋu artists and art workers at Bula’Bula Arts.

ARTWORK STORY 

Aboriginal art in Ramingining, Central Arnhem Land is commonly illustrated through designs and images of animals, plants, and landscape. These motifs commonly reflect the artists ancestral inheritance and their dreamings and are referred to as totems. This is one of the artists totems.

Brolgas have very long legs, which are grey to black. The Brolga is omnivorous meaning that they will feed on both plant and animal matter. They will eat a variety of wetland plants, insects and amphibians, and have also been known to eat mice. They are seen in the Wetlands of Arnhem Land.

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Gurrumattji (magpie geese) by Selena Malibirr

Manymak (very good)! This product helps build a sustainable source of income for Yolŋu artists and art workers at Bula’Bula Arts.

• Screenprinted linen tea towel with Gurrumatji (Magpie Geese) design 
• 100% linen
• 70cm x 50cm
• Available in black and flax colours 

 

ARTWORK STORY 

The Yolngu people of Arnhem Land originate from a spiritual source, fixed in a particular place in their land or the sea. These ‘Spiritual Reservoirs’ are often in the form of special waterholes made by Wangarr (Creative Beings) long ago close to the beginning of time.

The creator beings moved across the country side, shaping the land and implanting in each tract of country, the spiritual life force for the people who were to own it. These Creative Spirits took many forms. When they gave the land to each group they also gave songs, dances, ceremony, the associated laws and language. The Creation story for Ganalbingu people took place near the middle section of the Glyde River where it becomes the Goyder River. Their land, Ngaliyindi, sits astride the Arafura Swamp in Central Arnhem Land.

In this painting, the artist has depicted Gurrumattji (magpie geese), which are sacred to the Ganalbingu people. To the east of the Arafura Swamp is a freshwater billabong which is said to have been made by the Goose Spirit and is in the shape of a goose nest. As a result, geese, their eggs and their nests are sacred.

 

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Nelly clutch

This zippered clutch with detachable wrist strap was made with fabric that was screenprinted by Yolŋu art workers at Bula’Bula Arts. We print small batches of tea towels, tshirts and fabric lengths by hand because we love putting Yolŋu designs on everyday items – especially ones that balanda (non-Yolŋu) use! 

• Zippered clutch with detachable wrist strap 
• Fully lined with internal zippered pocket
• 21cm x 16cm

FABRIC STORY

The Nelly clutch is available in four fabric designs and multiple vibrant colour combinations:

• Dawurrmonuk (itchy caterpillar) by Evonne Gayuwrri
• Lidjilidji (Crimson Finch) by Andrew Wanamilil
• Lorrpu (Sulphur-crested Cockatoo) by Peter Gambung
• Ngambi (limestone) spear by Shannon Ashley

Due to the lovely handmade nature of this product, print quality may vary.

WORKING WITH FLYING FOX FABRICS 

We work with Flying Fox Fabrics, a small social enterprise based in Darwin. Flying Fox Fabrics, make and sell accessories, clothing and homewares from fabrics designed by Aboriginal artists which have been hand printed in Australia. They work in partnership with Aboriginal artists and fair trade organisations in Cambodia that train and employ disabled artisans.

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Zara purse (large)

The Zara Purse is a small zippered back made with fabric that was screenprinted by hand by Yolŋu art workers at Bula’Bula Arts. We print small batches of tea towels, tshirts and fabric lengths by hand because we love putting Yolŋu designs on everyday items – especially ones that balanda (non-Yolŋu) use! Due to the lovely handmade nature of this product, print quality may vary.

• 27cm x 17cm
• Fully lined with internal zipper pocket 
• Made with screenprinted fabric designed and printed by Bula’bula artists 

The Zara Purse is available in four fabric designs and multiple vibrant colour combinations:

• Dawurrmonuk (itchy caterpillar) by Evonne Gayuwrri
• Lidjilidji (Crimson Finch) by Andrew Wanamilil
• Lorrpu (Sulphur-crested Cockatoo) by Peter Gambung
• Ngambi (limestone) spear by Shannon Ashley

WORKING WITH FLYING FOX FABRICS 

We work with Flying Fox Fabrics, a small social enterprise based in Darwin. Flying Fox Fabrics, make and sell accessories, clothing and homewares from fabrics designed by Aboriginal artists which have been hand printed in Australia. They work in partnership with Aboriginal artists and fair trade organisations in Cambodia that train and employ disabled artisans.

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Zara purse (small)

• Screenprinted fabric from Bula’Bula 
• Fullly lined with internal zipper pocket 
• 22cm x 13cm

FABRIC STORY 

This product was screenprinted by Yolŋu art workers at Bula’Bula Arts. We print small batches of tea towels, tshirts and fabric lengths by hand because we love putting Yolŋu designs on everyday items – especially ones that balanda (non-Yolŋu) use! Due to the lovely handmade nature of this product, print quality may vary.

 Available in four fabric designs and multiple vibrant colour combinations:

• Dawurrmonuk (itchy caterpillar) by Evonne Gayuwrri
• Lidjilidji (Crimson Finch) by Andrew Wanamilil
• Lorrpu (Sulphur-crested Cockatoo) by Peter Gambung
• Ngambi (limestone) spear by Shannon Ashley

WORKING WITH FLYING FOX FABRICS 

We work with Flying Fox Fabrics, a small social enterprise based in Darwin. Flying Fox Fabrics, make and sell accessories, clothing and homewares from fabrics designed by Aboriginal artists which have been hand printed in Australia. They work in partnership with Aboriginal artists and fair trade organisations in Cambodia that train and employ disabled artisans.

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Sticker Pack

Meet animals and creation spirits from Ramingining, Arnhem Land. These sticker designs are taken from original paintings from incredible Yolŋu artists at Bula’Bula Arts. We love seeing Yolŋu designs on everyday items – especially ones that balanda (non-Yolŋu) use – because we are proud of our culture! It makes us happy to see our stories travel all around the world.

• Materials: High quality PVC. UV protected and water resistant. 
• Use: Suitable for indoor and outdoor use including bumpers, vehicles and windows.
• Designed in Ramingining, Arnhem Land. 

Yo! 10 stickers inside by Bula’bula artists: 

• Guwarrtji (Hawksbill sea turtle) by Peter Gambung
• Warrnyu (Flying Fox) by Andrew Wanamilil
• Wuldulbal/badju (bream) by JB Fisher
• Gananhdharr (egret) by Daniel Warrulukuma
• Gumang (magpie goose) by Angela Malibirr
• Burala (diving duck/oriental darter) by Peter Gambung

Manymak (very good)! This product helps build a sustainable source of income for Yolŋu artists and art workers at Bula’Bula Arts.

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Bottles

Robyn Djunginy began weaving bottle sculptures in 1983, after the Curator Djon Mundine, suggested to Djunginy that she may like to encase an empty gin bottle in Pandanus fibre ‘Chianti-style’ for an exhibition he was organising. Using a local twining technique, the artist began producing multiple woven bottles of various sizes. The sculptural qualities and the high workmanship of these objects have led them to be become recognised as key contemporary Aboriginal fibre works.

A decade after making her first bottle artworks, Djunginy began producing two-dimensional renderings of the woven sculptures on canvas.

Robyn has been the only artist from this area to produce and paint bottles, but has passed the bottle story on to her daughters.

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Warrnyu Dhawu (Flying Fox Story)

Back in the Creation time, Warrnyu (Flying Foxes) once lived like men, in the cave at the place called Kurrki Warrnyu Yirri Djaringal (they also lived in caves called Wadatilmurr & Gurngurmirrngu). Warrnyu lived in these caves for many years and then one day Djanyarr (The Dog) an ancestral being in the form of a man, came along. He was looking around for a place to live. Djanyarr heard the sound of a Flying Fox screaming. He went down to the cliff and he pushed the rock and the water came out at the Ganalbingu place called Gurrkawakarrmurr. He then went into the cave and into the sacred hole, frightened all the Flying Fox away. When he went into the hole he left his dilly bag in the tree and went out on the other side of the sacred cave and left the spear and the woomera. He sat there for a long time. The Dog made three streams and the water went inside the cave. Two of these streams are good drinking water. In the middle it is a sacred water. No-one drinks from the middle of the stream. Children, men, women, young boys or girls are not allowed to drink from the middle of the stream. If they drink the water from the middle of the stream they will get grey too early.

At Kurrki Warrnyu Yirri Ngilaya Djaringal, the Flying Fox made himself into a young man… that’s what Aboriginal people do today. They have ceremonies and dances to make the young boys into men. The songs are called Yirrarwu, Gulumu, Rruburra and Burryun. Dhapi (initiation ceremony) happens today because the Warrnyu (Flying Fox) people performed them a long time ago before the Yolgnu people. It was the Warrnyu people who first performed circumcision of the young boys to make them into men. It all happened at Kurrki Warrnyu Yirri Ngilaya Djaringal, this is how this place got its name.

Leaving behind the cave at Kurrki Warrnyu Yirri Djaringal, the Dog travelled west across the Arafura Swamp and came to Djalkulmurr (Mount Delight). From there he travelled north and came to Dunganda (a hill situated a few kilometres east of Ramingining). There he met a female Dog, then they both headed north and came to a place called Garanydjirrmurr where they spoke the Mildjingi language. From Garanydjirrmurr they changed their direction and went west through Guliny’barra, Burgumara and onto the plains. When they reached the plains they smelled something cooking, way up in the north – at Wessel Islands. The aroma they smelt was so enticing that they decided to go there. Lungurrma (the north-east wind) was carrying the smell. One Dog headed north again, but the other Dog decided not to go with him and went back the opposite way. The first Dog that went to Malwanatharra (Sandy Point) went into the sea following its nose to wherever the smell was coming from. It is believed that this Dog still lives in the sea…