Traditionally, Nganiyal (conical mats) were used as an insect screen when erected, and as a sitting mat when folded. They are used in Ceremony as well as a functional item.
Nowadays, artists weave many different shapes including flat, round and oblong.
Traditionally, Nganiyal (conical mats) were used as an insect screen when erected, and as a sitting mat when folded. They are used in Ceremony as well as a functional item.
Nowadays, artists weave many different shapes including flat, round and oblong.
Aboriginal art in Ramingining, Central Arnhem Land is commonly illustrated through designs and images of animals, plants, and landscape. These motifs commonly reflect the artists ancestral inheritance and their dreamings and are referred to as totems.
For this weaving, the artist has created a barramundi.
Aboriginal art in Ramingining, Central Arnhem Land is commonly illustrated through designs and images of animals, plants, and landscape. These motifs commonly reflect the artists ancestral inheritance and their dreamings and are referred to as totems.
For this weaving, the artist has created a barramundi.
The Pilbara is a land of many beautiful colours. Its beauty blends into the mother earth and against the red, purple hills in the distance.In time and season, the yellow Wattles, Mulla and Sturt Pea bloom and the country comes alive with the wildflowers watered by the rain and heavy dew during the night.The land and our country also tells a wonderful story about our ancestor’s. They walk and lived on the land always gathering food such as fish from the river, hunting kangaroos, tracking goannas and also gathering bush fruits and medicine.
After the rains in the wet season, the waterways are full and the seeds are ready to come up.
Every year around summertime we Yindjibarndi people don’t use other instruments like didgeridoo or tapping sticks. We only use boomerangs and sticks to sing our songs sitting around a circle.
Traditionally, Nganiyal (conical mats) were used as an insect screen when erected, and as a sitting mat when folded. They are used in Ceremony as well as a functional item.
Nowadays, artists weave many different shapes including flat, round and oblong.
