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Click to view a selection of artworks chosen by exhibition curator Hetti Perkins

 
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Highlights

Crossing Country features an artform distinctive to the Kuninjku people: the utilitarian, yet symbolically loaded and compellingly beautiful weavings crafted with milil, a tough tropical vine. Anchor Kulunba was an accomplished artist whose voluminous mandjabu (conical fish traps) demonstrated his ceremonial custodianship of the artform. At first glance, mandjabu bear an uncanny, mirage-like resemblance to the human form. They are used by Kuninjku to trap barramundi in the early dry season in the area around Bulkay.


Anchor Kulunba
Mandjabu 1985
milil vine and wood
290 x 48 x 70 cm
Purchased 1985
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

 

 

 
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