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Kuniyor Ngalyod (Rainbow serpent) Rainbow spirit coming from billabong. Rainbow serpent dreaming. Coming from billabong, that place we call billabong where that ngalyod (rainbow serpent). All that wayuk (waterlily), all them kundalk (grass) and pandanus, making skirt (??) That’s the story now.

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Lorrkon Raylene Bonson is a talented multi-disciplinary artist, and is especially well-known for her beautiful linocut fabric printing . She has been working with Bábbarra Designs since 2012 and  recently participated in a drawing workshop at Maningrida Arts & Culture. Raylene was mentored by her late mother, Nancy Gununwanga, a senior textile Read more…

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Lorrkon Raylene Bonson is a talented multi-disciplinary artist, and is especially well-known for her beautiful linocut fabric printing . She has been working with Bábbarra Designs since 2012 and  recently participated in a drawing workshop at Maningrida Arts & Culture. Raylene was mentored by her late mother, Nancy Gununwanga, a senior textile Read more…

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Lorrokon Raylene Bonson is a talented multi-disciplinary artist, and is especially well-known for her beautiful linocut fabric printing . She has been working with Bábbarra Designs since 2012 and  recently participated in a drawing workshop at Maningrida Arts & Culture. Raylene was mentored by her late mother, Nancy Gununwanga, a senior textile Read more…

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Yawkyawk Yawkyawk is a word in the Kunwinjku/Kunwok language of Western Arnhem Land meaning ‘young woman’ and ‘young woman spirit being’. The different groups of Kunwinjku people (one of the Eastern dialect groups call themselves Kuninjku) each have Yawkyawk mythologies, which relate to specific locations in clan estates. These mythologies Read more…

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