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You're invited on a powerful journey to sea country - Gapu Monuk Saltwater

The National Maritime Museum in Darling Harbour Sydney invites you on a ‘journey to sea country’ to discover how the Yolŋu people of northeast Arnhem Land fought for and won their case for Indigenous sea rights in a powerful new exhibition featuring the historic collection of Yirrkala Bark Paintings of Sea Country. http://www.anmm.gov.au/saltwater Gapu-Monuk Saltwater features up to 40 of the stunning paintings from the Saltwater Collection. It also uses oral histories, aerial photography and traditional and contemporary indigenous objects to delve deeper into the stories of the communities who created the paintings, giving visitors a richer understanding of their connection to sea country. Yolŋu artists from fifteen clans and eighteen homeland communities in east Arnhem Land created the sacred paintings in a response initiated by Madarrpa clan leader Djambawa Marawili in 1997, following the discovery of illegal fishing on a sacred site in his clan estate. Djambawa Marawili AM said in 1999, “It is time for non-Aboriginal people to learn about this land, learn about the waters. So if we are living the way of reconciliation, you must learn about Native Title and Sea Rights.” The paintings were deemed the equivalent of title deeds to the sea rights of coastal waters. And almost a decade later, in July 2008, the High Court of Australia confirmed that traditional owners of the Blue Mud Bay region in North-East Arnhem Land, together with traditional owners of almost the entire Northern Territory coastline, have exclusive access rights to tidal waters overlying Aboriginal land. The Yirrkala Bark Paintings of Sea Country map hundreds of kilometres of the coast, showing physical and social features throughout the region. Visitors will see a host of vibrant images including ancestral beings, ancient mariners, symbolic icons and a host of spiritual creatures including snakes, crocodiles, fish, turtles and birds, all set against traditional sacred designs representing fresh, tidal and salt water. Indigenous objects include Mokuy (spirit) carvings and Larrakitj (mortuary pole paintings on hollowed trees) which are combined with interactives, maps and video footage to give visitors an insight into the beliefs, languages and traditions of the communities as well as the unique landscape of north-east Arnhem Land. The Yirrkala part of the ANMM Collection and were purchased with the assistance of Stephen Grant of the GrantPirrie Gallery. This exhibition has been created with the support and assistance of the artists and Buku-Larrŋggay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala, the Yolŋu community, the Yirrkala Rangers of the Laynhapuy Homelands Aboriginal Corporation and the Northern Land Council. Exhibition Sponsor - University of NSW | Media Supporter NITV Entry to Gapu-Monuk Saltwater is FREE. For more information visit http://www.anmm.gov.au/saltwater.