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. A striking orange silk with Read more…
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. A striking orange silk with Read more…
Kunkih (Mud Ripples) This design depicts the patterns of the freshwater mud ripples, which emerge after strong monsoonal wet seasons on the Djinkarr and Nangak flood plains. These ripples form on the earth’s surface in delicate repetitive and shifting patterns. The mud ripples move, crack, disappear and re-emerge in response Read more…
Eiffel tower and the Maladj spirit “I want to tell you about my design, that Eiffel tower one. This year it was my first time going to Paris. I didn’t know that place, nothing. We travelled around the world to get there, we flew underneath the world in an aeroplane. 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…
Mandjabu Kuninjku people traditionally make two sorts of conical fish traps. One is called mandjabu and is made from a strong, durable vine called milil, and a smaller one is called manylik mandjabu, and made from the grass manylik. The mandjabuconical fish trap is bigger and stronger and used in tidal reaches Read more…
Manbirrbbirr (small bush flowers) In Kuninjku the name manbirrbbirr is used for a number of densely flowering shrubs and small trees including Verticordia cunninghamii, yellow flowering Austromyrtus species and also Acacia platycarpa which also has dense white. A new design by Margot. She has been back in the studio in Maningrida during the wet season.
Dilly Bag This is the same dilly bag that we all make. Pandanus dilly bag. – Joy 2025
Ngalyod and Short Leg Mimih That is the story about Ngalyod, rainbow serpent and that short leg mimih. This story is from Kunwarrde (rock) country in a place called Djileba (sp) near Yikarakal Outstation. It’s the story we all tell including that old man who passed away.