Boab - Alison Forrest Doris Doherty

Boab - Alison Forrest Doris DohertyPainted boab nut. Hand painted by Alison Forrest 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.

The bush tucker we collect is good mangari (eating) and kept us healthy

Late in the afternoon I saw this big comet with long tail

1/2 cooked at top and cooked in the middle

This bush tomato is very sweet

They names are Evelyn Costaine and Lukey Laurel

This is my mother's country it's very sandy there it has two waterholes with one each rainbow snake

This is my father country there's one waterhole

From the gumtree

In hot weather when they starting mating they lay eggs on the banks of rivers

last year with all our family

This is Japinka perment waterhole my peolpe use to lived here family many years ago

not as big as that cheeky snake Wirnpa