Ernabella Arts Inc.
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Minyma Kutjara There is a story of deep significance to women which contains metaphorical references to female cycles. It tells of two women travelling north. The pair meet with a group of women, including Kutungu, who are caring for a man who then passes away. They then travel to the Read more…
Ernabella Arts Inc.
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Anumara – Caterpillar Yurpiya is painting a place called Anumara, which is a place near Irrunytju (Wingellina) in WA. This is Yurpiya’s family’s country. Anumara is also the name for a kind of caterpillar and Anumara is the tjukurpa (dreaming) place for this caterpillar. This caterpillar lives in the grass Read more…
Bamanga Bubu Ngadimunku Aboriginal Corporation
225182374104
Mukirr (Women’s Business) Mukirr dance is about is about when I would go with my mum, aunties and other family to the Daintree River to find mussel shells. Using our feet on the river bed, we would feel where the mussel shells were. Once we located them we would dive Read more…
Bamanga Bubu Ngadimunku Aboriginal Corporation
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Kakan (Black Palm) Basket Weaving This design shows how the bottom part of a black palm basket is woven. My grandmothers and aunties used to make them. They cut off the young palm leaves in the centre, stripped and scrapped them. Then they would put the strips in freshwater to Read more…
Maningrida Arts & Culture
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Coil Basket Coil basketry is a well-established fibre art form in the Maningrida region, especially for women from the Kuninjku, Rembarrnga, Ndjebbana and Nakkara language groups. Artists make coiled baskets of many shapes and sizes, ranging from small round baskets to large oval baby baskets, and made mostly from pandanus Read more…
Maningrida Arts & Culture
111982374646
Mimih Spirit The mimih spirit exists in a realm that runs parallel to and mirrors many facets of human life, demonstrating the deep sense of time and place understood by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Such spirits feature importantly in relation to Aboriginal spirituality, cosmology, social and moral tales Read more…