Ba-gurrk Murrup, Women’s Healing and Cleansing Ceremony
Maker
Deanne Gilson (b.1967)
Date
2023
Description
Ba-gurrk Yaluk Beenyak (Women sitting under the night sky and making camp by the river).
With their baskets full, ready to prepare a meal for their family, the women share stories and go about their daily routines, under the night sky. The Southern Cross and Emu Constellation depict time and the changing seasons on Dja. An eel is caught in a hand-woven trap, made from flax and other grasses. Wattle seed is added to flavour food and crushed similarly to kangaroo grass to make dampers. The Murnong daisy tuber is crushed, or roasted whole to eat. The kangaroo apple is eaten ripe and the Bogong moth was also eaten for a source of protein. The season is entering what we call Spring in Western culture, just past the cool season, wattle is flowering and the banksias are at their end. Birds are mating and the eels are hatching. Evidence we were here first (Gilson, 2023c).
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