AMANDA JANE GABORI | ’Dibirdibi I’ | Painting / acrylic on canvas"Dibirdibi means rock cod in our language It is out Father and his Fathers totem. It was Dibirdibi who cut out the channels cutting Bentinck Island from the mainland. Dibirdibi's final resting place was the high hill Bardathurr on Sweers Island, south east of Bentinck Island. This place is called Dibirdibi Story Place. In search of water, the old people cut the liver of Dibirdibi to pieces and threw these on to rocks at the foot of a cliff where it

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as this form of expression gave shape to the Islanders’ gods

thana aguya balkidh tadimik

This is part of a ceremony when a young man spears his first dugong

by extension on his artistic practice

He was a great leader fighting for those who needed help and against people who were at the time trying to remove them from their country

he moved to Western Australia to work for many years

used to trap fresh water eels in the creek

the places we can go to and what animals we can eat

Lineage: King Menmuny of the Gunganji Nation of Yarrabah and King Yinnie of Cairns

Northern Territory in the early 1980s and is one of the leading carvers of the Wik and Kugu Arts Centre at Aurukun