Yingarna (Creation Mother) Design by Injalak buying Women on cotton

2m of hand screen-printed 'Max Poplin' 100% cotton (142 cm wide)
The fabric is around 125 gsm in weight - it is a high quality shirting poplin with a tight weave and crease resistant.
The base cloth is white and the design has been printed with red and buying black ink.
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All our fabrics are designed and hand-printed by our members in our workshop in Gunbalanya in West Arnhem Land, NT.

The designers:
Priscilla Badari, Lynne Nadjowh, Katra Nganjmirra

The design:
Yingarna is the ancestor whose journey resulted in the creation of the bininj or Aboriginal people.Yingarna emerged from the Arafura Sea and journeyed inland. She had a large stomachcontaining many children and wore a headband from which many dilly bags were hung. Each dilly bag was full of manme (plant foods). As she travelled she left spirit children in particular places and instructed them to speak specific languages. She planted the foods from her dilly bags and told the spirit children they were good to eat. This design shows Yingarna surrounded by a variety of bush foods, including karrbarda (long yam, Dioscorea transversa), mankinjdjek (cheeky yam, Dioscorea bulbifera) mankodjbang (Aponogeton elongatus) mandjarduk (red apple, Syzygium suborbiculare), manboyberre (white apple, Syzygium forte), mandudjmi (green plum, Buchanania obovata) and manmorlak (billy goat plum, Terminalia ferdinandiana).