Moa Arts
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Art Centre notes: The bag is made of natural raffia / cotton. It is made using a traditional ‘one twist’ method. the dyes are commercial and colour fast. It has long tassles above and/or below.
Purple Emu Art Centre
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Jarntinti “I, me, Nyanjilpayi paint this one, Jarntinti Lake. I been born there, mine. I been little girl born there, Jarntinti area. Jarntinti big claypan near Punmu. Tarlpa, Jutupa, Wawulpa, all waterhole and yinta (permanent spring) in Jarntinti area. Long time [ago] plenty bush tucker there, yukuri (green grass, vegetation) Read more…
Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation
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Ngalng – Janet Marawarr Ngalng (fresh water yabby) ‘This is a story from Mankorlod. This is a djang story. This is the creation story about the fresh water yabby. Starting with the stone, that’s the raw one and the cooked one. The stone rock suddenly turned to ngalng, in a Read more…
Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation
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Ngalng (fresh water yabby) Ngalng (fresh water yabby) ‘This is a story from Mankorlod. This is a djang story. This is the creation story about the fresh water yabby. Starting with the stone, that’s the raw one and the cooked one. The stone rock suddenly turned to ngalng, in a Read more…
Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation
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Mandjiribidj (Billy goat plum tree) Together with her grandmother, Lamecha has created a new Lino print design depicting the popular bush food, billy goat plum. This fabric was created using the linocut printing technique. The lino tile has been carved by the artist in Maningrida, and has been printed by Read more…
Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation
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Kunred (country) This fabric was created using the linocut printing technique. The lino tile has been carved by the artist in Maningrida, and has been printed by hand using a variety of colours and layers. The linocut technique ensures each textile piece is a one-off, limited edition piece. Bábbarra Women’s Read more…
Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation
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Ginga (crocodile) This fabric was created using the linocut printing technique. The lino tile has been carved by the artist in Maningrida, and has been printed by hand using a variety of colours and layers. The linocut technique ensures each textile piece is a one-off, limited edition piece. Bábbarra Women’s Read more…
Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation
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Ngaldadmurrng (Saratoga) This design tells the story of Saratoga dreaming, a freshwater fish that swims on the edge of creeks and rivers. This design is the Saratoga dreaming from the Mularra songline. Where the Saratoga we call Murdulngu, Danguny travelled from Malmyangarnak billabong to Mirrigatja. This Billabong was owned by Read more…
Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation
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Manbirrbbirr (small bush flowers) In Kuninjku the name manbirrbbirr is used for a number of densely flowering shrubs and small trees including Verticordia cunninghamii, yellow flowering Austromyrtus species and also Acacia platycarpa which also has dense white. Yellow, Purple and white fabric ink on white cotton.
Maningrida Arts & Culture
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Wak Wak This painting depicts a sacred site at ‘Kurrurldul’, an outstation south of Maningrida. The ‘rarrk’, or abstract crosshatching, on this work represents the design for the crow totem ancestor called ‘Djimarr’. Today this being exists in the form of a rock, which is permanently submerged at the bottom Read more…