Bamanga Bubu Ngadimunku Aboriginal Corporation

(LS): Yinjul (Rainforest Parrot)

Yinjul (Rainforest Parrot)

(KS): Green Ant Queen Print colour:  Creamy green, Venetian Red. Fabric colour: Mosstone Green Fabric type: 100% Cotton

(VC): Wurarr Wurarr (Dragonfly) Print colour:  Light Blue Fabric colour: Saxony Blue Fabric type: 55% Cotton and 45% Linen.

Vessel ‘Echidna’

Diwan (Scrub Turkey) In Kuku Yalanji language we call scrub turkey ‘Diwan’. When I was a young man I used to take my sons out hunting Diwan in the rainforest. We used to hunt them with a spear and cook them traditionally over an open fire. Diwan tastes very similar to Read more…

Ngangkin (Echidna) Long time ago our ancestors used to hunt echidnas for their meat and fat. The fat was used as bush medicine. They rubbed it onto sore muscles to relieve pain.  The echidna also appears as part of a rock formation on one of the high mountains  of Manjal Dimbi Read more…

Walbul Walbul (Butterflies) Butterflies in the rainforest are different colours, shapes and sizes. When they start to fly around you, that’s when a visitor is coming to visit you, someone whom you haven’t seen for a long time.

Mukirr Dance on yellow back ground Mukirr dance is about is about when I would go with my mum, aunties and other family to the Daintree River to find mussel shells. Using our feet on the river bed, we would feel where the mussel shells were. Once we located them Read more…

Owl Sisters Long ago back in the dreamtime these two ancestral being called “Tiddas” Owl Sisters, came down to the Buruwarra People within the Kuku Yalanji Nation. They would come once a year to teach wisdom, knowledge of the old ways. Restoring dance, songs, customs and tradition. Keeping culture & Read more…