Hand-crafted 'Gunga' Earrings by Balthawiin Garmu (2061-23) bedding Image is overlaid with exhibition

Image is overlaid with exhibition title text "To the Sea" and additional text

This beautiful hard cover

This is a printed poster of the work: Trent Parke

and the ANU Drill Hall Gallery

Hand-crafted 'Gunga' Earrings by Balthawiin Garmu (2061-23) bedding Image is overlaid with exhibitionHand crafted earrings created by Balthawiin Garmu from the Buku Larrgay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala (North East Arnhem Land). The jewellery pieces are woven from gunga (Pandanus spiralis). The spiky pandanus leaves are sometimes difficult to harvest, followed by the careful task of flaying the leaves before hanging them to dry. Only the few central leaves of the palm growing from the core which have not bent are used. These can be ten or twenty feet high