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  2. Tiwi Islands - Wikipedia

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    Tiwi Island bird carvings, 2011 Ceiling of a Tiwi Island art gallery and studio, 2011 The creation of Indigenous Australian art is an important part of Tiwi Island culture and its economy. There are three Indigenous art centres on the islands: Tiwi Design , Munupi Arts & Crafts, and Jilamara Arts and Craft, [ 34 ] and these collaborate through ...

  3. Melville Island (Northern Territory) - Wikipedia

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    Melville Island (Tiwi: Yermalner) is an island in the eastern Timor Sea, off the coast of the Northern Territory, Australia.Along with Bathurst Island and nine smaller uninhabited islands, it forms part of the group known as the Tiwi Islands, which are under the jurisdiction of the Northern Territory in association with the Tiwi Land Council as the regional authority.

  4. Bathurst Island (Northern Territory) - Wikipedia

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    Aboriginal Australians have occupied the area that became the Tiwi Islands for at least 40,000 years. [5]On 5 May 1623, Willem Jootszoon Van Colster (or Coolsteerdt), in the ship Arnhem named the island De Speult Eylandt, in honour of Herman van Speult, Governor of Ambon, who had commissioned the voyage of exploration.

  5. Category:Tiwi Islands - Wikipedia

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  6. Wurrumiyanga - Wikipedia

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    Wurrumiyanga (Nguiu) is the home of Tiwi Designs, [6] an art corporation (involving some 100 indigenous artists) which produces fabric, carvings, ceramics, print and paintings and whose aim is to promote, preserve and enrich Tiwi culture. [7] It is also home of the ground where Australian rules football is played and Tiwi Islands Football ...

  7. Tiwi Islands Region - Wikipedia

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    The Tiwi Islands Region is a local government area (LGA) of the Northern Territory, Australia. The LGA covers an area of 7,483 square kilometres (2,889 sq mi) and had an estimated population of 2,753 in June 2018, and is governed by the Tiwi Islands Regional Council , formerly Tiwi Islands Shire Council .

  8. Tiwi people - Wikipedia

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    The Tiwi people (or Tunuvivi [a]) are one of the many Aboriginal groups of Australia. Nearly 2,000 Tiwi people live on Bathurst and Melville Islands, which make up the Tiwi Islands, lying about 48 kilometres (30 miles) from Darwin. The Tiwi language is a language isolate, with no apparent link to the languages of Arnhem Land on the Australian ...

  9. Tiwi Designs - Wikipedia

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    Tiwi Designs (Tiwi Designs Aboriginal Corporation) is an Aboriginal art centre located in Wurrumiyanga (formerly Nguiu) on Bathurst Island (one of the Tiwi Islands), north of Darwin, Australia. It holds a notable place in the history of the contemporary Aboriginal art movement as one of the longest running Aboriginal art centres, having started ...

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