Kunmadj Kunmadj is the Kuninjku term for large woven collecting baskets, known as dillybags. They are often made from the burney vine (Malaisia scandens), a strong, pliable plant that grows along the ground and into the canopy of monsoon vine thickets. The baskets are used to collect a variety of heavy foods, such as fish Read more…
Lady Dreaming ‘Lady Dreaming is near the three palm trees, Ngarndúma on the Arnhem highway. One of the mermaids is called Jilapara and the other is Lilima – they are two sisters. My husbands grandmother knows this story. She’s like djomi but different. This one is big and fat, djomi Read more…
Lady Dreaming ‘Lady Dreaming is near the three palm trees, Ngarndúma on the Arnhem highway. One of the mermaids is called Jilapara and the other is Lilima – they are two sisters. My husbands grandmother knows this story. She’s like djomi but different. This one is big and fat, djomi Read more…
Warakkála (Long Yam) Warakkála is the name of a place on Entrance Island meaning ‘ there are many long yams’. Warakkála is a kind of long yam, bush tucker for the Kunibidji people. These yams are roasted in ashes or hot water. They have méameya (hair) which is depicted in Read more…
Djabayéna (Ancestral sawfish spirit) Djabayéna is a highly significant saw fish creation spirit that is part of the symbolic identity of the Ndjébbana speaking Kunibidji people of West Arnhem Land. When seen from the sky, the formation of a large Djabayéna can be seen at the opening of the Liverpool River on Read more…
Yawkyawk – Janet Marawarr ‘Yawkyawk swim underneath the rock. They always stay there. When the sun comes out they come out from underneath the river, make themselves warm. They sit and they look around. When they sit, they cry to themselves. Ngaldjorlhbo (mother of everything) she created them – yawkyawk Read more…
Kundalk (grasses) on Kunwarrde (Stone Country) That kundalk (sedge/grass) it grows in the water in that black mud, it holds fast to that mud. Wet season time, that kunwarrde (stone country) covered by leaves and grass and mud. When it rains the fish come through. You can see that grass, Read more…
Namarlbbe (Mimih Spirit Creation Story) Namarlbbe hides up in the kunwarrde (stone country), he’s hiding between two rocks. He’s standing and looking around that Mimih. That plant on the rock next to him is windilk, that brown/purple colour for pandanus. Namarlbbe has large ears to listen for Bininj. When that Read more…