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100% Linen, hand-screen or digital print.
The Men’s short sleeve shirt is a relaxed straight cut silhouette constructed from linen that softens with wear, offering a comfy feel with a smart appearance. Tailoring of the back yolk, neat collar, boxy shoulder, full button closure - it’s moderately curved front and back bottom allow for it to maintain a neat look when worn untucked and for the versatility of wear.
Note: The model wears a different design, the Rock Wallaby Red Ochre design is featured in photo 1.
Artist: Robert Namarnyilk
Nabarlek (Rock Wallaby)
“Nabarlek, it’s a badbong (short-eared rock wallaby), which is a small kangaroo, that lives in the escarpment. They eat manbadbirri (Rock country tree with an edible yellow fruit), which is another fruit and they also eat mandjabujabu, which is what I have painted. Manbadbirri is a fruit, that grows on the escarpment. We get this fruit in March, Bankarreng, the same for Mandjabujabu, when the spear grass goes flat from the ‘knock em down rains’. Both of these fruits bininj (aboriginal people) and nabarlek eat.
They (Nabarlek), eat this off the ground, on the escarpment. Nabarlek, is duwah, from duwah area, they have got that dreaming (Narbalek) there. The place called Nabarlek, that’s their dreaming. I’m Yirridjdja, which means I’m allowed to paint this djang (dreaming). We use in ceremony, I dance with that story (Nabarlek), but that’s men’s business, secret one. Black Wallaby and Rock Wallaby are duwah too, so especially Yirridjdja people, they paint these stories.”