Barddedde (Bangle Vine) Barddedde (bangle vine) is a climbing vine with cane-like stems. It is used to make armbands and was traditionally used to sew together the ends of bark canoes. This one colour screen print was designed in 2006 and has been revived in 2025.
Kunbowinjku (Fresh Water) 2022 Kunbowinjku (fresh water) A new design made in 2022 featuring a mandjabu (fish trap), kunmadj (dilly bag) and fresh water weed. ‘This design is kunbowinjku – which is fresh water, kunronj. This is a mandjabu – fish trap which is floating in a creek. Fish Read more…
Kunbowinjku (Fresh Water) 2022 Kunbowinjku (fresh water) A new design made in 2022 featuring a mandjabu (fish trap), kunmadj (dilly bag) and fresh water weed. ‘This design is kunbowinjku – which is fresh water, kunronj. This is a mandjabu – fish trap which is floating in a creek. Fish Read more…
Kunbowinjku (Fresh Water) 2022 Kunbowinjku (fresh water) A new design made in 2022 featuring a mandjabu (fish trap), kunmadj (dilly bag) and fresh water weed. ‘This design is kunbowinjku – which is fresh water, kunronj. This is a mandjabu – fish trap which is floating in a creek. Fish Read more…
Kunbowinjku (Fresh Water) 2022 Kunbowinjku (fresh water) A new design made in 2022 featuring a mandjabu (fish trap), kunmadj (dilly bag) and fresh water weed. ‘This design is kunbowinjku – which is fresh water, kunronj. This is a mandjabu – fish trap which is floating in a creek. Fish Read more…
Kunkurra (Spiral Wind) – Margot Margot has depicted kunkurra, the spiralling wind associated with several sites in the Kardbam clan. On one level, this design can be interpreted as a depiction of the kinds of mini-cyclones common during the wet season in Arnhem Land. Kunkurra also relates specifically to a Read more…
Ngalkunburriyaymi (mermaid) Kuninjku people call mermaids yawkyawk but in my language, Kune we call them Ngalkunburriyaymi (pronuced Ngaal gun borro yay mee). The Ngalkunburriyaymi depicted in my artworks is from a place called Marra-yii (sp?). There are too many Ngalkunburriyaymi living at this place. They are always there and have Read more…
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…
Kunkurra (Spiral Wind) – Margot Margot has depicted kunkurra, the spiralling wind associated with several sites in the Kardbam clan. On one level, this design can be interpreted as a depiction of the kinds of mini-cyclones common during the wet season in Arnhem Land. Kunkurra also relates specifically to a Read more…