ALVIN GAVENOR | 'Kajawur - Dance Hat' (3) | Artefact"The dance hat is also called 'Kajawur' in our Lardil language. Human hair is spun into string and wound onto a bark frame. Frequently red ochre called Nguyinen is applied as decoration. The white clay is termed 'Kayal' and is also used as medicine and body paint during corroboree. Some artist acrylic paint is used. The hats are topped with emu feathers, which are not endemic to Mornington Island but were traded with mainland people. The hats are worn

Paper size: 810mm x 1100mm

sawuraw bay koey kakal yawoeyayk puyab kadaka amoeymik

Published by Djumbunji Press KickArts Fine Art Printmaking

designed to control Aboriginal people and deny them the civil rights extended to the rest of the population

Edition of 200

Paper size: 1200 mm x 1820 mm

Their wind is Kuki the north westerly

Moegu kuth mineral muynu koey waru agunu thonar tidayk

Paper size 122cm H x 81cm W

will continue to the next generation

Editioning printers: Elizabeth Hunter and Hannah Parker

JOEL SAM | 'Thabu Tutuwam (snake scales)' | Etching printed in black from one plate with Chine Collé | 2009 | Image size: 945 x 500 mm | Paper size: 1200 x 800 mm