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INJALAK ARTS Selina Nadjowh Crossbody Bag Green Navy Blue Hand Printed Indi NEW

Name: INJALAK ARTS Selina Nadjowh Crossbody Bag Green Navy Blue Hand Printed Indi NEW
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SKU: EBox017 #Injalak
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Selina Nadjowh Green & Navy Blue Hand Printed Crossbody Bag

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This beautiful bag has been hand printed and features art by Selina Nadjoh and depicts the Nawaran (Oenpelli Python)

The designer: Selina Nadjowh

Selina comes from a family of art makers. Her father, Timothy Nabegeyo, is a well known senior man and painter and her mother, Audrey Nadjowh, is a senior fibre artist. Selina and her sister Lynne are known to make a combination of bark paintings with a woven pandanus frame – an artform unique to this Gunbalanya region.

The Design: Nawaran (Oenpelli Python) 2014

This design depicts the rare nawaran (Oenpelli Python, Morelia oenpelliensis), an enormous snake endemic to West Arnhem Land. Nawaran is known to enjoy feeding on kuluban (flying foxes, pteropus spp.), and can be seen here winding up a bloodwood tree in search of its prey. Bloodwood trees such as mandangdang (Corymbia setosa) and manbune (Corymbia polycarpa) flower around the Kunwinjku season of Yekke, the colder time of the year around May-June. At this time flying foxes swarm to feed on the flowers, and grow fat and sweet. This is the best time to hunt them and they are traditionally cooked in a ground oven.

The huge coiled figure of nawaran in this design captures a sense of its latent power, with its head searching and poised to strike.

The bag's features:

Sweet, lightweight and very handy bag that can be worn off the shoulder or cross body

Big enough to hold everything you need such as phone, purse/wallet, keys and more

Feature fabric designed by Selina Nadjowh of Injalak Arts and hand printed in Gunbalanya, West Arnhem Land, NT

Adjustable shoulder strap

Flap with magnetic closure

Zip pocket at back of bag

2 pockets under flap

Internal zip pocket

Lined

Can be gently hand washed