This ceramic and mosaic mural project has been designed to acknowledge and pay respect to the ancestors of the land on which the centre is built. The traditional owners of the Land are the Yulukit Wilum, of the Boonwarrung Language Group. The native fish will remind us that the Yulikit Willum People respected their environment by not fishing when the fish were spawning, in order to protect the future of their environment and their food supply.
Monday, January 14, 2013
The wall of fish mural to acknowledge the Yulakit Wilum People.
This ceramic mural acknowledged the traditional owners of the Land, the Yulukit Wilum People of the Boonwarrung Language Group. The mural is of a big wave that contains words and native fish made out of clay by the 3 year old and four year old children of the early childhood centre in 2012.
The ceramic mural was assembled by community artist Debbie Qadri.
The words and spelling for the text were sought from the Boonwarrung Elder Aunty Carolyn, who generously helped us.
The text reads:
We'd like to pay our respects to the Yulukit Wilum of the Boonwarrung language group, the Ancestors of the land on which we stand.
We also pay our respects to our Ancestors and to our Elders past and present.
Womin djeka mirum bikk bikk narm derp borphen uther wilum.
Welcome to our beautiful home, land of the great bay.
Thankyou to Aunty Caroline for giving us the correct words.
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