Boab - Dora Cox Roslyn Padoon

Boab - Dora Cox Roslyn PadoonPainted boab nut. Hand painted by Dora Cox. 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.

Every painting is special to me because my mother and my father tough me everything when I was young

Real Hard Country The Great Sandy Desert

that way out in the desert

plenty of bush tucker

One roo looking for feed on country near Fossil Downs

He hidden itfrom all the other anmials birds and the Bunuba tribe then one day Wardahwhi falocn got angry he picked up a stick and flew high in the sky and threw jarwie ( top Brooking with a lot of force the water rushed out of the rocks and created springs

my family walk this land many years ago through the hot sun

for the bush honey

This is an important jila (waterhole) in my country

This is warrimba (flood) this before the flood when the flood comes it covers everything in the land water holes and creeks Margret River Gooniyandi country

bush coconuts

Before this