NETTA LOOGATHA | ‘Fish Net – Mijilda II' | Painting / acrylic on linen board Moa Island This publication was generously supported

This publication was generously supported by the Queensland Indigenous Arts Marketing and Export Agency (QIAMEA) and Arts Queensland

This work comes framed in floating box timber that has been lime washed

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My sons often come home sharing images of their day at sea filmed on a gopro

located between the tip of Cape York Peninsula and Papua New Guinea

NETTA LOOGATHA | ‘Fish Net – Mijilda II' | Painting / acrylic on linen board Moa Island This publication was generously supported"Fish nets were made from native hibiscus fiber, which is very common. The fiber was stripped from the branches and soaked in the sand near the running water creek. After three to four weeks it was taken up, dried, and then processed into a string, and finally woven into a fish net. These were then used to trap large sea prey such as dugongs and turtles." "I was only a small child when our people were brought to Mornington Island and forced to live in