Bamanga Bubu Ngadimunku Aboriginal Corporation

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Kurranji 2 (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 cassowwary can attack people but at the same time he helps growing many of the plants we used to collect for food, medicine and tool making.

I inherited the Cassowary Totem and all the cultural stories relating to it from my mother’s side. When I was four years old, my mum taught me how to dance the story of the female cassowary, who is protecting the chicks and the eggs from the carpet snake and goanna.

As a young women, I took on the role of my mum and began teaching our cultural dances to the younger generation at the Mossman Gorge community as well as children that live in Mossman town. I still do this today.

Printed on Arches BFK Rives 300gsm paper made in France at the Arches paper mill. The paper is mould-made and crafted from 100% cotton fibers.

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Kurranji 2 (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 cassowwary can attack people but at the same time he helps growing many of the plants we used to collect for food, medicine and tool making.

I inherited the Cassowary Totem and all the cultural stories relating to it from my mother’s side. When I was four years old, my mum taught me how to dance the story of the female cassowary, who is protecting the chicks and the eggs from the carpet snake and goanna.

As a young women, I took on the role of my mum and began teaching our cultural dances to the younger generation at the Mossman Gorge community as well as children that live in Mossman town. I still do this today.

Printed on Arches BFK Rives 300gsm paper made in France at the Arches paper mill. The paper is mould-made and crafted from 100% cotton fibers.

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SJB: “Ngayu kuku balkan” (my story). Black State.

Kuku Yalanji (talk of this place) – pronounced Guh-guh Yell-an-gee

Ngayu kuku balkan (my story) – pronounced ngay-yuh guh-guh bul-gun

Wurarr-wurarr (dragonfly) – pronounced oo-rard-oo-rard

 

Kuku Yalanji people are the Traditional Owners of the celebrated Daintree Region.

Where the rainforest meets the reef and has one of the oldest living Cultures in the creation.

Traditional Lands extends from south of Port Douglas, northbound to the south of Cooktown area and west to the Great Dividing Range.

My artwork depicts that this is a portion of ngayu kuku balkan and that each wurarr-wurarr in this artwork represents my transformation.  

For many years a lot of my artwork was created interpreting the dragonfly.  Through my pieces you see how I have changed as a person over time and how the dragonfly has transformed with me; however in this piece I am the dragonfly.   My affiliation with the dragonfly never faded and I am relaxed with the feeling of a peaceful connection when creating it.  

Sheryl J Burchill ©

Printed on Arches BFK Rives 300gsm paper is made in France at the Arches paper mill. The paper is mould-made and crafted from 100% cotton fibers. 

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SJB: “Ngayu kuku balkan” (my story). Black State.

Kuku Yalanji (talk of this place) – pronounced Guh-guh Yell-an-gee

Ngayu kuku balkan (my story) – pronounced ngay-yuh guh-guh bul-gun

Wurarr-wurarr (dragonfly) – pronounced oo-rard-oo-rard

 

Kuku Yalanji people are the Traditional Owners of the celebrated Daintree Region.

Where the rainforest meets the reef and has one of the oldest living Cultures in the creation.

Traditional Lands extends from south of Port Douglas, northbound to the south of Cooktown area and west to the Great Dividing Range.

My artwork depicts that this is a portion of ngayu kuku balkan and that each wurarr-wurarr in this artwork represents my transformation.  

For many years a lot of my artwork was created interpreting the dragonfly.  Through my pieces you see how I have changed as a person over time and how the dragonfly has transformed with me; however in this piece I am the dragonfly.   My affiliation with the dragonfly never faded and I am relaxed with the feeling of a peaceful connection when creating it.  

Sheryl J Burchill ©

Printed on Arches BFK Rives 300gsm paper is made in France at the Arches paper mill. The paper is mould-made and crafted from 100% cotton fibers. 

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SJB: “Ngayu kuku balkan” (my story). Black State.

Kuku Yalanji (talk of this place) – pronounced Guh-guh Yell-an-gee

Ngayu kuku balkan (my story) – pronounced ngay-yuh guh-guh bul-gun

Wurarr-wurarr (dragonfly) – pronounced oo-rard-oo-rard

 

Kuku Yalanji people are the Traditional Owners of the celebrated Daintree Region.

Where the rainforest meets the reef and has one of the oldest living Cultures in the creation.

Traditional Lands extends from south of Port Douglas, northbound to the south of Cooktown area and west to the Great Dividing Range.

My artwork depicts that this is a portion of ngayu kuku balkan and that each wurarr-wurarr in this artwork represents my transformation.  

For many years a lot of my artwork was created interpreting the dragonfly.  Through my pieces you see how I have changed as a person over time and how the dragonfly has transformed with me; however in this piece I am the dragonfly.   My affiliation with the dragonfly never faded and I am relaxed with the feeling of a peaceful connection when creating it.  

Sheryl J Burchill ©

Printed on Arches BFK Rives 300gsm paper is made in France at the Arches paper mill. The paper is mould-made and crafted from 100% cotton fibers. 

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SJB: “Ngayu kuku balkan” (my story). Black State.

Kuku Yalanji (talk of this place) – pronounced Guh-guh Yell-an-gee

Ngayu kuku balkan (my story) – pronounced ngay-yuh guh-guh bul-gun

Wurarr-wurarr (dragonfly) – pronounced oo-rard-oo-rard

 

Kuku Yalanji people are the Traditional Owners of the celebrated Daintree Region.

Where the rainforest meets the reef and has one of the oldest living Cultures in the creation.

Traditional Lands extends from south of Port Douglas, northbound to the south of Cooktown area and west to the Great Dividing Range.

My artwork depicts that this is a portion of ngayu kuku balkan and that each wurarr-wurarr in this artwork represents my transformation.  

For many years a lot of my artwork was created interpreting the dragonfly.  Through my pieces you see how I have changed as a person over time and how the dragonfly has transformed with me; however in this piece I am the dragonfly.   My affiliation with the dragonfly never faded and I am relaxed with the feeling of a peaceful connection when creating it.  

Sheryl J Burchill ©

Printed on Arches BFK Rives 300gsm paper is made in France at the Arches paper mill. The paper is mould-made and crafted from 100% cotton fibers. 

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SJB: “Ngayu kuku balkan” (my story). Black State.

Kuku Yalanji (talk of this place) – pronounced Guh-guh Yell-an-gee

Ngayu kuku balkan (my story) – pronounced ngay-yuh guh-guh bul-gun

Wurarr-wurarr (dragonfly) – pronounced oo-rard-oo-rard

 

Kuku Yalanji people are the Traditional Owners of the celebrated Daintree Region.

Where the rainforest meets the reef and has one of the oldest living Cultures in the creation.

Traditional Lands extends from south of Port Douglas, northbound to the south of Cooktown area and west to the Great Dividing Range.

My artwork depicts that this is a portion of ngayu kuku balkan and that each wurarr-wurarr in this artwork represents my transformation.  

For many years a lot of my artwork was created interpreting the dragonfly.  Through my pieces you see how I have changed as a person over time and how the dragonfly has transformed with me; however in this piece I am the dragonfly.   My affiliation with the dragonfly never faded and I am relaxed with the feeling of a peaceful connection when creating it.  

Sheryl J Burchill ©

Printed on Arches BFK Rives 300gsm paper is made in France at the Arches paper mill. The paper is mould-made and crafted from 100% cotton fibers. 

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Tea Towel ‘Ngunyin (Dilly Bag)’ by Margaret Rocky – TTMR04

Dillybags played a vital part in Kuku Yalanji culture. Women used them to carry food when out hunting and gathering or soak bitter yams in creeks before cooking them. Dillybags were also used to hold personal and sacred items.

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Mother Earth

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Mukirr (Women’s Business)

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 we would dive and collect the shells and put them in our dresses or shirts to hold. Once our dresses were full, we would swim to the bank and off-load to another family member to get them ready to eat by putting them on the fire. When the ladies were feeling with their feet, it would look like they were dancing in the water. Mukirr means mussels, that’s why this artwork is called Mukirr Dance. The Mukirr dance to me represents my mother, aunties and older cousins as well as many Yalanji women of the past because this was a part of bama life. Today, some ladies still collect mussel shells up in the shallow area of the Daintree River.