WARINGARRI ABORIGINAL ARTS
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Mejerran – Black Plum Anita paints the Mejerren (black plum) tree laden with its sweet fruit. These trees often grow in hilly areas.
WARINGARRI ABORIGINAL ARTS
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Jilinybeng In this artwork Peggy has depicted a bush tucker known as “bush cucumber”. This plant grows as a vine and you have to search for it amongst the grasses. The bush cucumber, more like a bush lemon fruit, is grey/green in colour and ripens in the wet season. It Read more…
Maningrida Arts & Culture
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Djomi There are two Dreaming ladies at Bábbarra billabong – Djómi and Bábbarra. These two are sisters: one freshwater ‘mermaid’ and one saltwater one. Big long head, big stomach and very skinny legs that Bábbarra. Their mother is the crocodile who lives in the Bábbarra billabong. Both sisters will give Read more…
Maningrida Arts & Culture
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Ngangiy (Mud-mussels) This Painting depicts Ngangiy (Mud mussels) a type of shellfish; a mussel, a commonly gathered clam found in the mangrove mud and characteristically coated with coralline growth and stained partly black. Polymesoda coaxans (Corbiculidae). This plentiful shellfish is collected in the dried out floodplains, only a small sliver Read more…
Maningrida Arts & Culture
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Ngangiy (Mud-mussels) This Painting depicts Ngangiy (Mud mussels) a type of shellfish; a mussel, a commonly gathered clam found in the mangrove mud and characteristically coated with coralline growth and stained partly black. Polymesoda coaxans (Corbiculidae). This plentiful shellfish is collected in the dried out floodplains, only a small sliver Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Kunawarritji (Canning Stock Route Well 33)- “We went to Kunawarritji. We went out to see the waterholes with Kumpaya [Girgirba], my aunty – my dad’s sister. It’s the first time I went in a chopper to see the waterholes. Kumpaya take me to show me the waterholes, show me my Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Kunawarritji (Canning Stock Route Well 33) “We went to Kunawarritji. We went out to see the waterholes with Kumpaya [Girgirba], my aunty – my dad’s sister. It’s the first time I went in a chopper to see the waterholes. Kumpaya take me to show me the waterholes, show me my Read more…