Boab - Daniel Yamalulu Ngurti

Boab - Daniel Yamalulu NgurtiCarved boab nut. Hand carved by Daniel Yamalulu. Boab nuts are synonymous with the Kimberley region. Many artists start their careers carving and painting boabs for sale as gifts, decorations and for sharing stories before moving onto painting on canvas and other art forms. Artefacts are made locally by artists and craftspeople, many of whom are Mangkaja artists. Keep an eye out for their paintings in our artwork section.

A longtime ago people lived close together in groups as one big family

Hanson Pye

digital recordings and publications that have become In the Saddle - On the Wall contain important historical and deeply personal accounts of a time when aboriginal people were the back-bone of the Kimberley cattle industry

The eagle hunting for his dinner from above looking for smaller critters hiding in the shades

Kenny Yaada

Looking for bush potatoes (witchetty grubs) (bush onions jurnta) goannas hard day of hunting returning back to the waterhole to rest

We didn't have sugar in those times

From the gumtree

Hand-painted by Cynthia Cox

traveling on the back of a wagon

Painted boab nut

My mother tells me stories about the desert where she was born and named the waterholes where she lived with her mother and father