Buḻwutja
Buḻwutja is a water yam that grows in the billabong. My sister Mulkuṉ taught me how to paint this. Bulwutja has a songline which is sung by my clan, Dhudi-Djapu. This is a Dhuwa plant. The old people would go and collect Buḻwutja in the wet season. You can’t find
it when it is dry because there are no leaves. First we dig in the water for Buḻwutja. Then we make a fire. When the fire burns down we take the coals to one side and put sand on top of them. Then the hot sand cooks the Buḻwutja. There are lots of different bush
yams, like ganguri, gaṉay’, yukuwa, ṉiṉḏaṉ' and yoku. Now Yolŋu can buy food at the shop, but it has lots of sugar in it. Bulwutja is healthy. It tastes sweet and goes good with fish. We always try to get them when we go hunting.
- Linocut on Somerset Paper
- Image size 65 x 39cm; Paper Size: 76 x 56 cm
- Cat No. 4809-25
Muluymuluy Wirrpanda
Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre is the Indigenous community controlled art centre of Northeast Arnhem Land. Located in Yirrkala, a small Aboriginal community on the northeastern tip of the Top End of the Northern Territory, approximately 700km east of Darwin. The primarily Yolŋu (Aboriginal) staff of around twenty services Yirrkala and the approximately twenty-five homeland centres in the radius of 200km.
Today Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre now consists of two divisions; the Yirrkala Art Centre which represents Yolŋu artists exhibiting and selling contemporary art and The Mulka Project which acts as a digital production studio and archiving centre incorporating the museum.
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