Ngaduun (crab) < Melinda J. Irvine

ngaduun
captured by hand
back a decade, or more

Painted ngaduun (crab) by Michelle Donovon (2006) on the wall of the Tourist Information Centre Nyambaga (Nambucc Heads). The Gumbaynggirr peoples were fishing the Nyambaga and spearing ngaduun long before the farmers, timber cutters, shipping merchants, and European fishing nets.

REFERENCES

Gumbaynggirr Language Names
National Parks and Wildlife Service NSW
https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/education/2010GumbaynggirrLanguageDatabase.pdf

Gumbaynggirr
Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Co-op
http://muurrbay.org.au/languages/gumbaynggirr/

IndigenousPeople, Murals

Melinda J. Irvine

Melinda J. Irvine is a freelance writer, blogger and creative. She writes for business clients and online publications all over the world. When she’s not writing about holistic health and ways to become a more effective writer, Mel is practicing tai chi and supporting the emotional wellbeing of marginalised kids in the Philippines. Sometimes she even has time to cross stitch.

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