Bamanga Bubu Ngadimunku Aboriginal Corporation
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Status: Stock Tea Towel ‘Ngunyin (Dilly Bag)’ by Margaret Rocky – TTMR04 Dillybags played a vital part in Kuku Yalanji culture. Women used them to carry food when out hunting and gathering or soak bitter yams in creeks before cooking them. Dillybags were also used to hold personal and sacred items.
MOWANJUM ART AND CULTURE CENTRE
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Status: Stock Country Bin Pull’em This is the catalogue to the 2024/25 Mowanjum exhibition in Frankfurt/Main in Germany. The exhibition was co-curated by Rona Charles and Leah Umbagai. It takes a look back at the Froebenius Exhibition to the Kimberley region of Northwest Australia in 1938-39.
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Status: Stock Hand painted polymer earrings Hand painted earrings made with oven set polymer and acrylic paint. Note that earrings will vary in colour and design as this item is individually handmade. “Emu go to the springs to have a drink of water and then move on to the next one.” Read more…
Papulankutja Artists
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Wanampi Piuyl Well (Snake Well) The Snake Well is in the Piuyl Mountains, near Warburton. It is where four Water snake people emerged from a hole in the ground and headed out in four different directions. This story is linked to the tales of the famous water snake woman, Kuniya, Read more…
Papulankutja Artists
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Kungkarrangkalpa (Seven Sisters) ‘Kungkarrangkalpa’ (The Seven Sisters or Pleaides) is significant Tjukurrpa (dreamtime). Its origins you may be familiar with in astronomy and its connection to ‘Wati Nyiru’ (Magic Man or Orion). The roots of this dreaming stems across indigenous groups around the world. The Australian Aboriginal songline is one Read more…
Artists of Ampilatwatja
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Denise Ngwarraye Bonney – Tijamburra, My Grandmothers Country This is my Mothers Mothers country, out near Canteen Creek, we go hunting for wild onions, goannas, echidnas and sugar bag honey in the trees. I like to hunt in my country, there is water all year round even if it looks Read more…
Artists of Ampilatwatja
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Colleen Ngwarraye Morton – Hunting Colleen is one of the original artists in the Utopian batik movement in the 1980’s and has been successfully painting ever since. Colleen’s paintings often depict her Grandfather’s country where her family have hunted for many years. As a child she was taught about the Read more…
Artists of Ampilatwatja
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Valerie Kemarre Lewis – My Mothers Country My mothers country is flowers, trees and mountains. I love to paint them. We see springs, the water from the springs is like rainwater, fresh and clean. We hunt goanna and turkeys, we roast them in the fire and the flesh is strong and Read more…
Artists of Ampilatwatja
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Diane Kemarre Ross – My Country This is my country, it’s the country around Irrultja. This is where we like to go after big rain. After big rain there, we can go swimming. There is always good hunting on my country. It is good for me to paint my country Read more…