Hand screen-printed Linen.
The fabric is around 200 gsm in weight - it is a high quality Linen
The base cloth is white. The design is printed with light brown ink on a natural coloured linen
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Fabric designed and hand-printed in our workshop in Gunbalanya in West Arnhem Land, NT.
The designer:
Thompson Nganjmirra
The design:
Mimih Spirits Hunting 2014 Kunwinjku people of West Arnhem Land believe Mimih spirits were the original spirit beings who taught Aboriginal people many of the skills they needed to survive. Mimih spirits inhabit the rocky escarpments around Gunbalanya but because they are extremely timid they are rarely seen by humans.They are frequently depicted in the rock art of Arnhem Land as small, dynamic figures, often shown with a range of hunting tools such as in this design - mankole (spears), borndok (spear throwers) djerrh (dilly bags) and kundjahkorl (fire sticks).
In this design the Mimih spirits are shown hunting barrk (black wallaroos), kalawan (goanna), ngarrbek (echidna) and kurndamen (frill-necked lizard). Nawaran, the rare Oenpelli python, is regarded as a “pet” of the Mimih Spirits, inhabiting the same escarpment country. Likewise boywek, the knob-tailed gecko, lives in caves and rocky crevices in the online stone country where Mimihs also live.
Product code: Mimih Spirits Hunting online by Thompson Nganjmirra on cotton