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ROSIE BINDALBINDAL - FISH TRAP

ROSIE BINDALBINDAL - FISH TRAP

SKU: 20292

ROSIE BINDALBINDAL

FISH TRAP,  2005
120 x 40 cm
Pandanus (Pandanus Spiralis)

 

REGION

Maningrida : NT

 

PROVENANCE
Maningrida Arts & Culture, NT
Bim Bam Byron Bay, NSW
Private Collection, NSW
Cooee Art Leven, NSW

 

STORY
To make fish traps and fish nets artists firstly get vine - mirlarl from the jungle and they put it in water overnight to soften it. Next, they start weaving it; they make rings for the inside to keep the fish trap's shape. Artists work for three or four weeks on the one fish trap. To tie the conical end of the fish trap and to attach the rings they use string from kurrajong - burdaga.

This fish trap, is used in the salt water side and the fresh water side and the people also used fish net fences called mun-dirra. A long time ago they would put the mun-dirra - fish net fences across rivers and creeks and in the middle they would place the an-gujechiya the fish trap.

People catch fish like saltwater barramundi - rajarra, freshwater barramundi - janambal, small back freshwater catfish - buliya, bonefish - an-guwirrpiya, and sandbass - dalakan in these fishtraps.

Text by Leon Bandicha Ali

 

 

ARTIST PROFILE

ROSIE BINDALBINDAL

    AU$1,800.00Price

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