MOWANJUM ART AND CULTURE CENTRE
22544008218
Status: Stock Gum nut Keyrings These are hand-collected and painted Gum nuts from Barbara Bear.
Status: Stock Gum nut Keyrings These are hand-collected and painted Gum nuts from Barbara Bear.
Status: Stock Earrings This are a variety of earrings, done by different artists in different styles.
Status: Stock Gum Nut Earrings Barbara Bear is a dedicated jewellery maker. She picks the nuts from the tree in front of her house.
Status: Stock Tea Towel ‘Diwan (Scrub Turkey)’ by Laurence Gibson
Jurnta (Bush Onion) JURNTA that we digem up from the ground sometime we eat it raw or sometime we throw in the coals
Bush Onion (Jurnta) This country Booloowatu. My community grows bush onions. During the dry season jurnta goes black. This means they are ripe (cooked) and ready to dig up and cook on the coals. The left side shows jurnta green (raw). These ones will be ready for digging up next Read more…
Milyarn yirnta (permanent waterhole) “Milyarn waterhole got a big mob of trees all around, we call them parrkaparrka (Desert Oak), good for shade and honey this one” (edible nectar from flowers). “This one got Jilji “(sandhills) all around represented by the four ovoid shapes in corners.
This is a big waterhole. Rain runs into the waterhole. This is good water. My people and my family lives in the desert for many years when rain season comes the waterholes use to be full by rain.And the jila waterholes nerver runs dry.And trees get green for the people Read more…