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Vaccuum Drink Bottle

Vacuum insulated double walled 650mm drink bottle for hot and cold drinks. Lightweight and compact, this bottle keeps either hot or cold for hours.  Beautifully designed by Erub artists. A traditional hymn is printed tastefully within the design conveying how the gospel spread across the Torres Strait. Complete with secure screw top and handy carabineer clip, comes packaged in black gift box.   

COMING OF THE LIGHT

Every year on 1 July Torres Strait Islanders celebrate The Coming of the Light to commemorate the adoption of Christianity across the islands. It began on the 1st of July 1871 when the Reverend Samuel MacFarlane of the London Missionary Society anchored at Erub Island and was welcomed on the island. Erub Arts produced a range of products to mark the150th anniversary of Coming of the Light inculding keyrings, caps, drink bottles and more.


 

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Stubby Cooler

Classic can holder manufactured from 5mm genuine neoprene, will hold most drink cans. Prevents cold, wet hands as well as keeping drinks cool.

COMING OF THE LIGHT

Every year on 1 July Torres Strait Islanders celebrate The Coming of the Light to commemorate the adoption of Christianity across the islands. It began on the 1st of July 1871 when the Reverend Samuel MacFarlane of the London Missionary Society anchored at Erub Island and was welcomed on the island. Erub Arts produced a range of products to mark the150th anniversary of Coming of the Light including keyrings, caps, drink bottles and more.

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Coiled Basket – Basket set of 3

Our artists create coiled baskets using a variety of materials including native grasses, natural and synthetic dyes, feathers and commercially produced raffia. The baskets vary in size and shape.  Each one is unique.

Kaiela Arts provide an important space for local Aboriginal artists and the community to connect to culture through the arts.

We strengthen community by sharing culture, learning from our past and empowering future generations.

 

 

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Urlakal

Urlakal is a Kala Lagaw Ya language for a dugong herd that are found in the shallow waters through Torres Strait Islands. Each herd is led by a dominate male and moves between different feeding grounds along the tidal currents of Guthal and Kulis.

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Gathering food and water

Memories told to me by elders of the hardship of pulling the water up to the bank by a single bucket which was on the pully. 

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Derrick Butt – Kulyakartu

Kulyakartu; an area in the far north of the Martu homelands, near the Percival Lakes in the northern Great Sandy Desert. The artist’s elders have extensive knowledge of the Country in this region, where they grew up living traditionally during the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) days. Kulyakartu is mostly grass Country where there is very good hunting. There is no permanent water source in Kulyakartu,

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Wind

This print is based on certain days that are good to travel into Thursday Island before this big wind picks up.

 

Art Centre notes:

The artwork is a lino print, printed on BFK Rives paper (100% cotton rag with strong archival properties). 

 

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Yawk Yawk (Freshwater Mermaid)

Yawk Yawk is the Kunwinjku term used for young women but also for special female water spirits that have fish tails. Sometimes they are described as ‘mermaids’ and are said to live in trees and in water in special places in western Arnhem Land. They are spirit guardians of a particular waterhole.

Yawk Yawk start out in a tadpole-like form and as they get older they grow fish tails. They spend most of their time in the water but when fully-grown are able to change their tails into legs and walk on land to forage for food.

They have Namarnkol (barramundi) as pets and Ngalyod (Rainbow Serpent) serves as their protector. At the end of the wet season Yawk Yawk change into dragonflies, which signifies to the Bininj (Aboriginal people) that the rains have finished.

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