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The Brewarrina Aboriginal Fish Traps, also known as Baiame's Ngunnhu, consists of a series of dry-stone weirs and ponds arranged in the form of a stone net across the Barwon River in north west NSW. They occupy the entire length of a 400m-long rock bar that extends from bank to bank across the river bed.
In 2013, Martiniello was awarded the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award for her piece Golden Brown Reeds Fish Trap. [5] The Australian award is the most prestigious prize for Indigenous art. The piece was inspired by woven fish traps from northeast Arnhem Land and Cape York, and took a team of seven artists to make. [6]
A fish trap is a trap used for catching fish and other aquatic animals of value. Fish traps include fishing weirs, cage traps, fish wheels and some fishing net rigs such as fyke nets. [ 1 ] The use of traps are culturally almost universal around the world and seem to have been independently invented many times.
Most Aboriginal fibre artists are women, originally trained in making practical items such as fish traps, baskets, string bags and mats. [10] However many urban Aboriginal artists have been inspired to learn traditional weaving skills, often using innovative materials or translating fibre works into other media such as cast metal and glass. [11]
Wurrwurrwuy stone arrangements is a heritage-listed indigenous site at Yirrkala, Northern Territory, Australia. It is also known as Wurrwurrwuy. It was added to the Northern Territory Heritage Register on 15 August 2007 and to the Australian National Heritage List on 9 August 2013. [1] [2]
A fishing net is a net used for fishing. Some fishing nets are also called fish traps, for example fyke nets. Fishing nets are usually meshes formed by knotting a relatively thin thread. Early nets were woven from grasses, flaxes and other fibrous plant material. Later cotton was used.
Mary Dhalapany. Mary Dhapalany (born 1953), skin name Bilinydjan, [ 1] also known as Mary Dhapalany Mangul, [ 2] is an Indigenous Australian contemporary artist based in Ramingining, Australia in Arnhem Land. [ 3] She is of the Yolŋu people from the Mandhalpuy clan, of the Dhuwa moiety. [ 1] She is a renowned Aboriginal Australian fibre-artist.
Hair. Hairstring is an important textile traditionally made by Aboriginal Australians. People, particularly women, would cut their hair regularly using quartz or flint knives. This hair is never wasted. It can be spun into long threads of yarn on a spindle rolled on the thigh and then plaited to about the thickness of 8 ply wool.
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