Status: Stock Tote Bag – (Kurranji) Cassowary The cassowary is one of the major totems (Ancestral Spirit Beings) for our Kuku Yalanji people. He is a big, dangerous bird that rules the rainforest. The cassowary can attack people, but at the same time he helps growing many of the plants Read more…
Status: Stock Tea Towel – (Ngunyin) Dillybag Our ancestors used Kakan (Black Palm) dilly bags to carry food when out hunting and gathering or soak bitter yams in creeks before cooking them. They were also used to hold personal items. When I was a young girl my grandmother would teach Read more…
Status: Stock Tote Bag – (Ngunyin) Dillybag Our ancestors used Kakan (Black Palm) dilly bags to carry food when out hunting and gathering or soak bitter yams in creeks before cooking them. They were also used to hold personal items. When I was a young girl my grandmother would teach Read more…
Status: Stock Tote Bag – Family Family is very important to me. Whenever I draw my family design in clay, on fabric or on paper, it makes me think about the many good experiences I had when growing up. I enjoyed being out on country, going hunting and fishing, collecting Read more…
Status: Stock Tote Bag – (Kakan) Black Palm Basket Weaving This design shows how the bottom part of a black palm basket is woven. My grandmothers and aunties used to make them. They cut off the young palm leaves in the centre, stripped and scrapped them. Then they would put Read more…
Status: Stock Tote Bag – (Birmba) White Cockatoo Birmba (White Cockatoo) is my family totem. It has been passed down from generation to generation. White Cockatoos always remind me of my grandfather, my sisters and other family who have passed on. They are like protective spirits for me, my family, and Read more…
Status: Stock Sarong – Ngunyin (Dillybag) Our ancestors used Kakan (Black Palm) dillybags to carry food when out hunting and gathering, or soak bitter yams in creeks before cooking them. They were also used to hold personal items. When I was a young girl my grandmother would teach me how Read more…
Status: Stock Sarong – Makarr (Fish Trap) Fish traps are called Makarr in our language. They were made by men only. Our fathers and uncles used to make them with the lawyer vine. They stripped the stems and then soaked them in the river to keep them soft and bendy. They Read more…
Status: Stock Lorna Shuan, Kurriyala (Carpet Snake) The carpet snake is an important animal for us. We call it Kurriyala in our Kuku Yalanji language. Our ancestors wrapped the meat in native ginger leaves and cooked it on the hot coals of the ground oven. They also used the skin Read more…