Mako (Key F#, Toot G#) Key: F#Toot: G# Didjeridus from this region are made in the West Arnhem style. Called Mago, they’re different and special and follow the tradition made famous by Beswick’s Mago Master, elder David Blanasi. Ghunmarn didjeridus Read more…
Bailinyin – Eileen Bray Joomena The painting is of the country of Spring Vale Station, Bailinyin. Recently, in the wet season, Rusty traveled to this place with his grandchildren. There they were shown how to catch and kill a goanna, Read more…
Gilbunj Country- Violet Vally/Mabel Downs Gilbunj country (MABEL DOWNS) My Grandfather Country, My Mother’s- Shirley Purdie Birth Place.
Woven Dragonfly This finely crafted hand woven dragonfly is a cheerful reminder of the real dry season dragonflies. Signalling in the dry season, dragonflies are ubiquitous with dry winds, cool nights and saying goodbye to the wet season! Our ridiculously talented Read more…
Kali Kali These Kali Kali, or boomerang shaped clapsticks can be used for both ceremonial or hunting purposes. Carved from White Gum timber, they have been hand finished using boiled linseed oil. Wood carving has always been part of Aboriginal culture Read more…
Clapsticks Wood carving has always been part of Aboriginal culture and Djilpin artists continue this tradition. Men carved wood for many purposes – tools for hunting or gathering food, axes and knives for building shelters, spears and clubs for protection Read more…
Ngaginyji Joomooloony- ‘My boab tree’ by Eileen Bray This painting is about Joomena’s Ngaginyji Joomooloony, her boab tree. “The boab tree we are born under becomes our special tree; this one is Ngaginyji Joomooloony, which means ‘My Boabtree’” Eileen Bray Read more…
Clapsticks Wood carving has always been part of Aboriginal culture and Djilpin artists continue this tradition. Men carved wood for many purposes – tools for hunting or gathering food, axes and knives for building shelters, spears and clubs for protection Read more…
Rainforest Shield Traditional shields were carved from a single piece of timber cut from side of the buttress root of a rainforest fig-tree. The kidney shaped shields are unique to the rainforest Bama of Far North Queensland. They were decorated Read more…
Birnoo Crocodile and Goanna Ngarrangarni This painting is dreamtime story my father- Gordon Barney has passed on to me and share the story here; ‘That’s an Alice Down Story, that’s Alice Down Hills, true story. That two hill on top Read more…