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“This is another girl tree. But he got a good tucker, them seeds. This is a nutwood tree, we call him Barregll. They (old people) reckon that when you eat a big mob of the nuts, you get grey hair quicker, because when you look at this tree, the branches are grey.”
The nutwood tree found in Gija country has a tasty nut. The elders passed onto Shirley another story about how the tree can turn people’s hair grey if they eat too many of its nuts. The tree is another feminine-classified tree for Gija people.
This exhibition features new works from ten women artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history, enriching the contemporary narrative around Australia’s history and biography, reflecting the tradition of storytelling in our country.
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