This design depicts the story of the artist’s ancestral dreaming, the Djomi fresh water spirit mermaid. ‘If you go there you can get pregnant easily. Djomi has babies, and they can give others babies too. The Djomi spirit is so powerful, that women can end up with multiple babies at once, twins or sometimes even more. The Djomi spirits lay eggs near the sacred freshwater stream in Maningrida. Inside the eggs are human babies as well as young Djomi.’ - Joy Garlbin

Situated in west Arnhem Land Babbarra Women's Centre represents 12 language groups from the coastal community of Maningrida and the surrounding homelands. Babbarra Designs, established in 1989 is a social enterprise that operates out of the women’s centre and produces hand block-printed and screen-printed textiles.

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