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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]
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]
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.
The Albany Fish Traps, also known as the Oyster Harbour Fish Traps, are a series of fish traps situated in Oyster Harbour near the mouth of the Kalgan River approximately 14 kilometres (9 mi) east of Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia . The traps were constructed by the Menang peoples and are over 7,500 years old. [ 1]
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.
Regina Pilawuk Wilson. Regina Pilawuk Wilson is an Australian Aboriginal artist known for her paintings, printmaking and woven fiber-artworks. [1] She paints syaws (fish nets), warrgarri (dilly bag), and message sticks. [2] Her work has been shown in many Australian and international museums, collections and galleries. [3]
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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