Our ancestors have lived as part of this country and created baskets, traps, shields, swords, boomerangs, spears and body ornaments for many generations, and today we are still here making them.

We make all these artworks on our traditional country from materials collected from the rainforest, woodland and coastal country. We go out into the rainforest and collect lawyercanes and special grasses to make our traditional jawun bicornal baskets, burrajingal square based baskets, gundala coil baskets, wungarr (eel traps) and mindi small grass baskets. Our baskets were an important part of our lives and were used to collect and carry bush food, babies and other objects. The jawun, a special bicornal shaped basket, unique to the North Queensland rainforest people, was also used to leach toxins from poisonous seeds in the running waters of the creeks, to make them edible.