Numbulwar Numburindi Arts

Woven Mats Woven mats were used in the olden days to sit and sleep on, often for babies, intricately and lovingly made with pandanus and natural dyes.

Nyalk (Rain) “Rain falling down on the pandanus. Helping to grow the new pandanus, but we can’t pick the pandanus because it’s too much rain. We have to go; go back home, there’s too much storm. Carrying all that axe. See that storm. Nyalk is the Wagilak word for rain.”

Home, Numbulwar

Ana (Mangroves)

Moori (Water Buffalo) Eating the Grass

Labama (Moon) and Minyarr (Wattle Trees)

Minyarr (Wattle Tree) “The season with the yellow blossom from the Minyarr tree means that the fish are fat and good for hunting. This tree you can use the bark to make string. Sometimes we use the black seeds for necklace too. You can eat the sap, it’s like a Read more…

Eagles above the Billabong

Maguj (Pandanus)

Road to Rocky Point