Boab - Alison Forrest Lennie Nalgood

Boab - Alison Forrest Lennie NalgoodPainted boab nut. Hand painted by Alison Forrest Boab nuts are synonymous with the Kimberley region. Many artists start their careers carving and painting boabs for sale as gifts, decorations and for sharing stories before moving onto painting on canvas and other art forms. Artefacts are made locally by artists and craftspeople, many of whom are Mangkaja artists. Keep an eye out for their paintings in our artwork section.

I can't remember that name now

This is true story of my back being forever finished

In the Great Sandy Desert

42 x 59cm - Print Size

and Purrpun trees

When you fly on a plane you can see the waterholes from the air grass and salt lakes and flat country that my country in the Goldfield

The Jila called Lakarpaja

It's an important story for the Kimberley

surrounded by green grass

We set our dinner camp near a waterhole and go hunting looking for bush tucker we get quandongs

He told me that those men killed our men and a lot of women too

We families go out to our father's country to hunt for emus