Kaiela Arts Shepparton
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Passing Knowledge I love relaxing by the lake watching the turtles and feeding them. There’s something peaceful about it.
WARMUN ART
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Bow River Country, Kathy Ramsay This is Bow River County. My family has a strong history of this place. My grandfather Timmy Timms (Snr) named the dams here redrock damn, and the redrock itself called redrock and the damn near the hill is called marringarnji dam, meaning where dingos come Read more…
Bamanga Bubu Ngadimunku Aboriginal Corporation
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Kurriyala (Carpet Snake) The carpet snake used to be an important food animal for our ancestors. They wrapped the meat in native ginger leaves and cooked it on the hot coals of the ground oven. They also used the skin to make head bands or skillfully sewed blankets to keep the Read more…
Badu Art Centre
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Kubilaw Noeraw Dhangal The lines depicted on the dhangal (dugong) show the traditional cuts that are used by Maubiay. The name of this cut is kaiar rou dun and is used to ensure that all of the meat and precious fat is obtained and shared amongst the community. The tear-shaped Read more…
Badu Art Centre
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Waru Waru (sea turtle) is an important totem for Torres Strait people. When the little brown jelly fish come down from the estuaries like a brown river thousands of turtles gather to feast on them. We don’t hunt the waru then because their intestines will be filled with jellyfish and Read more…
Badu Art Centre
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Githalay Karumuy Azam Zarram Zenadh-Kes families love to get together with family at our beach camps to go hunting for food in the mangroves. The boys use the spear to hunt fish and crabs while the girls look for muscles and pipi shells. Once we have gathered enough food for Read more…
Badu Art Centre
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Sowurraw Pamay (Digging Wild Yam) My image Sowurraw Pamay depicts a boy digging for wild yams. I lost my father when I was young so my mother brought us up. My older brother’s taught me the traditional men’s business like hunting and fishing, but I learnt all about gathering plants Read more…
Papulankutja Artists
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The boy who turned into wind (pirriya) at Walu rockhole This story is about a young boy who had no parents and was neglected. There were two men (the boy’s uncles) and one young boy camping at Walu Rockhole, an important water site in the Gibson Desert, northwest of the Read more…
Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation
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Bawáliba (Stone Country Mimih) ‘Bawáliba is the djang (Dreaming) of my mother and my uncles. They are good spirits, they protect us and they recognise families. They are really tall- just like human beings, like us. They dance late at night and have a lot of hair. In olden times, Read more…