Wangaba Roebourne Art Group
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Stepping Stones The Ngarluma Ancestors walked the lands crossing rivers to find food and to camp. They used the stepping stones to cross parts of beautiful Ngarluma Country
Wangaba Roebourne Art Group
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Munni Munni Hills As I grew up my mum and dad would take me through country telling me stories of the hills that we call Munni Munni hills. We would walk near from where we lived just to tell stories of this great hill.
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…
Wangaba Roebourne Art Group
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Stepping Stones The Ngarluma Ancestors walked the lands crossing rivers to find food and to camp. They used the stepping stones to cross parts of beautiful Ngarluma Country
Maningrida Arts & Culture
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Coil Basket Coiling technique was introduced in the 1920s at Goulburn Island to the Maung people by missionaries and quickly spread to the mainland. Many artists produce coiled baskets of varied shapes, ranging from small round baskets to large oval baby baskets made from dyed pandanus. Artists combine colours and Read more…
Maningrida Arts & Culture
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Baru (Crocodile) This painting depicts Baru (Saltwater crocodile)
Maningrida Arts & Culture
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Burlupurr – large dillybag Burlupurr, or dilly bag, is a large woven collecting basket. These large bags are often made from the vine ‘Malasia scandens’, a strong pliable plant which grows along the floor and into the canopy of monsoon vine thickets. The bags are used to collect any kind Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Kaalpa (Kalypa, Canning Stock Route Well 23) “Kaalpa (Kalypa, Canning Stock Route Well 23) is my grandfather’s Country. There’s a waterhole there, Kaalpa waterhole. It’s my two pops’ Country. They been walking around, hunting around Kaalpa. You can see a yapu (rock), warla (lake), claypans, karru (creek) and tuwa (sandhills) Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Untitled This work portrays an area known intimately to the artist, painted here in exquisite detail from memory. During the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) era one’s survival depended on their intimate knowledge of the location of resources; thus physical elements of Country, such as sources of kapi (water), tali (sandhills), Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Bush Medicine “I used to walk around Patjarr with my grandmother collecting bush medicine. We would grab the leaves, the roots, make a fire and boil it up in a big pot. Then we would put it in a little container, you rub it on when you are sick. Helps Read more…