Gulayi – Quandamooka Women’s dillybag
2018
- Medium
- ungaire (swamp reed), shells
- Measurements
- 84.4 × 20.7 × 7.7 cm (variabe)
- Place/s of Execution
- Brisbane, Queensland
- Accession Number
- 2019.873
- Department
- First Nations Australia
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Barbara Hay, 2019
© the artist, courtesy Onespace Gallery - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Gulayi – Quandamooka Women’s dillybag is a looped and knotted bag, inspired by a bag held in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. The label that accompanied the bag at the Pitt Rivers Museum stated that it had been collected ‘from the scene of a massacre’. Gulayi – Quandamooka Women’s dillybag is woven in the spirit of regenerating traditional Quandamooka weaving practices, many of which were dormant as a result of colonisation.