Mick recently finished a cloak commission for Nairm Marr Djambana - an Aboriginal community organisation based on the lands of the Bunurong / Boonwurrung Peoples in what is now called Frankston.
Check out our You Tube Channel for a Video of the Making of this beautiful cloak. (we will soon have a shortened version of this video available)
https://bit.ly/NMJPossumCloakCommission
Here is some more information about the Nairm Marr Djambana Gugra Design. Gugra means possum skin cloak in Taungwurrung language.
The cloak has seventeen panels – each panel represents stages in a person’s life, from being born and their life experiences and stories.
1. Bunbunarik / Bubup - Child/baby
2. Liwik - Ancestors
3. Ngarrnga Bagungga - Gathering knowledge
4. Gerr - Learning how they belong and relationships
5. Gulinj / Bagruk - Becoming a Man/Woman
6. Bunjil the Wedge-Tailed Eagle – our creator, and one of the two totems of the Kulin People
7. Waang the Crow / Raven – Protector and one of the two totems of the Kulin People
8. Right of Passage – Girl to Woman Marram Da-Gruk or Boy to Man Gimbobuk
9. Right of Passage – Girl to Woman Marram Da-Gruk or Boy to Man Gimbobuk
10. Kulin Dhumba-k - Stories of the Kulin
11. Kulin Biik – Kulin Country
12. Dhumbi-Njaar – Story Holders
13. Dhumbi-Njaar – Story Holders
14. Bagruk Munga - Woman's Business
15. Bagruk Munga - Woman's Business
16. Gulinj Munga – Mens Business
17. Gulinj Munga – Mens Business
The coloured sections represent the person's particular elements of their story that are the possibilities and what the story of their life becomes.
Made for: Nairm Marr Djambana
Website: https://www.djambana.org.au/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NairmMarrDja...
Made by: Ngarga Warendj Dancing Wombat
Website: https://ngargawarendj.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NgargaWarendj
You Tube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/NgargaWarendj