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KAMBI – Fashion Collection, Lila Creek – Baral Print I am a Nyungkul  woman from Shipton’s Flat, my mother’s Country.  My dad was a  Kaanju man from the Coen area. This fabric print represents Baral which means tracks and what animals are travelling around. Some Read more…

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KAMBI – Fashion Collection, Junibel Doughboy, Bulbuji Print I’m Kuku-Yalanji woman. My mum is from Wujal Wujal and my dad is from Laura, Chillagoe and Cooktown. My Bulbuji print represents the dragonfly’s. We can’t touch Bulbuji or wurarr-wurarr. They are Read more…

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Galawon (Goanna) This painting depicts two goannas embedded in an intricate depiction of gungara, the mini cyclones common during the wet season in Arnhem Land. Gungara also relates specifically to the Bilwoyinj site. At this site, two of the most Read more…

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Galawon (Goanna) This painting depicts two goannas embedded in an intricate depiction of gungara, the mini cyclones common during the wet season in Arnhem Land. Gungara also relates specifically to the Bilwoyinj site. At this site, two of the most Read more…

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Mandjabugudukguduk  Manjabukudukkurduk refers to a deep black waterhole that has deep spiritual significance as the site where Kuninjku people’s spirit comes into being and returns in death. The artists explains, “When we die our spirit will go back there… so Read more…

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Warraburnburn In Burarra and Gun-nartpa languages the figure represented in this artwork is generally known as a wangarra ‘ghost spirit’. For the Warrawarra clan ghost spirits have their own particular characteristics and their own name – Warraburnburn. The Warraburnburn and the closely related Galabarrbarr Read more…

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Warraburnburn In Burarra and Gun-nartpa languages the figure represented in this artwork is generally known as a wangarra ‘ghost spirit’. For the Warrawarra clan ghost spirits have their own particular characteristics and their own name – Warraburnburn. The Warraburnburn and the closely related Galabarrbarr Read more…

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Bark Painting Aboriginal bark paintings have a long cultural tradition, believed to extend back many thousands of years.In northern Australia, paintings on bark shelters in the Kimberley and Arnhem Land were stylistically similar to rock shelter paintings. The Aboriginal bark Read more…

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