Yinjaa-Barni Art
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Our Country (The Pilbara) Pilbara is the country where we the Yindjibarndi people live and share many of our cultural stories and history that have been passed onto us by our ancestors, of how they used to walk through the Read more…
Yinjaa-Barni Art
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Marni 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 mulla and sturt pea bloom and Read more…
Yinjaa-Barni Art
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Blue Gum In September, when we are looking for gum from the Blue Gum Tree, we walk through the spinifex country. We pick the gum when it is crystal colour, and we eat it, or put it into hot water Read more…
Yinjaa-Barni Art
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Walking on Yindjibarndi Country the Red Dirt This is the story of our ancestors walking on the country many years before us. It is said that you can still still their footprints in the earth.
Yinjaa-Barni Art
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Yindjibarndi Snake In our country we have snakes that live in the trees and they wait for flying foxes and birds to eat.
Bana Yirriji Art Centre
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Kurranji, Cassowary When I was a young kid, we would travel from Mossman to Cape Trip looking for Kurranji eggs. This was back in the old days when all the roads were dirt and no-one was around. There were a Read more…
Bana Yirriji Art Centre
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Echidna – Ngangkin Ngangkin – Echidna is a marsupal which lives in a burrow, it eats ants & worms. It is warm blooded, it’s been a native bush tucker for 40,000 years for aboriginal & torres strait islander people.
Yinjaa-Barni Art
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Playing with Paint This work is playful experiment with colour and textures. The background represents the Pilbara hills, the pinks represent the wildflowers and the cream colour over the top is the dry spinifex of my country.