SAPU PUYIEL Variety of gum trees growing in lower landscape around Mua Island. During certain months of the year, each trees bloom, beautiful flower releases their soft eucalyptus fragrances on the land. Each trees and their leaves are used for different ceremonial activities. They also have medicine properties to treat Read more…
SAPU PUYIEL Variety of gum trees growing in lower landscape around Mua Island. During certain months of the year, each trees bloom, beautiful flower releases their soft eucalyptus fragrances on the land. Each trees and their leaves are used for different ceremonial activities. They also have medicine properties to treat Read more…
SAPU PUYIEL Variety of gum trees growing in lower landscape around Mua Island. During certain months of the year, each trees bloom, beautiful flower releases their soft eucalyptus fragrances on the land. Each trees and their leaves are used for different ceremonial activities. They also have medicine properties to treat Read more…
SAPU PUYIEL Variety of gum trees growing in lower landscape around Mua Island. During certain months of the year, each trees bloom, beautiful flower releases their soft eucalyptus fragrances on the land. Each trees and their leaves are used for different ceremonial activities. They also have medicine properties to treat Read more…
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…
Multju – Nora’s family’s country This is the place where Nora was born. It is Mulga country and a great place to find Honey Ants. There is a story of a mother with her two children and they have great success in this place finding honey ants. They enjoy the Read more…
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…
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…
Burlupurr – large dillybag Burlupurr, or dilly bag, is a large woven collecting basket. These large bags are often made from the vine ‘Malasia scandens’, a strong pliable plant which grows along the floor and into the canopy of monsoon vine thickets. The bags are used to collect any kind Read more…
Wak Wak This painting depicts a sacred site at ‘Kurrurldul’, an outstation south of Maningrida. The ‘rarrk’, or abstract crosshatching, on this work represents the design for the crow totem ancestor called ‘Djimarr’. Today this being exists in the form of a rock, which is permanently submerged at the bottom Read more…