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Kabar Shell Basket as i was walking past my aunty’s garden it was decorated full of Kabar shell, she loved reef walking before her time.   Art Centre notes:  The basket / bag is made of natural raffia / cotton / jute / sea chord / seeds. It is made Read more…

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Bag   Art Centre notes:  The basket / bag is made of natural raffia /  sea chord. It is made using a traditional ‘one twist’ method. The strap is adjustable / open / closed at the end. It has long tassels above. The dyes are commercial and colour fast.  Size Read more…

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Bag   Art Centre notes:  The basket / bag is made of natural raffia /  sea chord. It is made using a traditional ‘one twist’ method. The strap is adjustable / open / closed at the end. It has long tassels above. The dyes are commercial and colour fast.  Size of Read more…

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Bag   Art Centre notes:  The basket / bag is made of natural raffia, sea chord and seeds. It is made using a traditional ‘one twist’ method. The strap is adjustable / open / closed at the end. It has long tassels above. The dyes are commercial and colour fast.  Size Read more…

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Bag   Art Centre notes:  The basket / bag is made of natural raffia /  sea chord. It is made using a traditional ‘one twist’ method. The strap is adjustable / open / closed at the end. It has long tassels above. The dyes are commercial and colour fast.  Size of Read more…

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Bag   Art Centre notes:  The basket / bag is made of natural raffia, sea chord and seeds. It is made using a traditional ‘one twist’ method. The strap is adjustable / open / closed at the end. It has long tassels above. The dyes are commercial and colour fast.  Size Read more…

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Bag   Art Centre notes:  The basket / bag is made of natural raffia /  sea chord. It is made using a traditional ‘one twist’ method. The strap is adjustable / open / closed at the end. It has long tassels above. The dyes are commercial and colour fast.  Size of 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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Burnpa (Butterfly) Bark paintings have a long cultural tradition, believed to extend back many thousands of years. In northern Australia, the walls of bark shelters in the Kimberley and Arnhem Land may well have been painted to convey and illustrate stories in the same way that rock shelters were. Bark painters in the Maningrida Read more…

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Jarlambu (Freshwater Catfish) Bark paintings have a long cultural tradition, believed to extend back many thousands of years. In northern Australia, the walls of bark shelters in the Kimberley and Arnhem Land may well have been painted to convey and illustrate stories in the same way that rock shelters were. Bark painters in the Read more…

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