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40 DN106
Dennis Nona Kaiwai - Barnacle 2005
Etching Paper: 700mm x 1000mm $725
It's called Kaiwai in language. This work is an etching. Kaiwai - it's a barnacle, a soft barnacle, not a shell one.
It's just like a rubber, it creeps on the rocks and it's got little lumps. It's found under the rocks on the shore,
along the shore. If you touch it or pick it up it releases saliva, like soap or something. In the afternoon in the old
days, when it's Ziba Zib time (when the sun is almost gone), the ladies would take their little babies down to the
rocks. They take the Kaiwai, it's like this cake, and they rub it under the baby's under belly. In language it's
called Ngdalai, it's the underbelt of the babies, male and female, and that saliva is there. They rub it and when it
dries, 10 minutes, tonight the babies won't piss until tomorrow morning. It's soft and looks very white. The
ladies know where to find them. Sometimes they get some and they go and put it back on the rock and it will
stay there for them.
Medium: Etching
Edition Size: 45
Printer: David Jones
Studio: Queensland College of Art
Etching Created At: Brisbane, QLD on May, 2005
Print Published: Brisbane, QLD on March, 2006
Paper: Magnani
Paper Height: 700 mm ( 27.6" )
Paper Width: 1,000 mm ( 39.4" )
Image Height: 390 mm ( 15.4" )
Image Width: 900 mm ( 35.4" )
I.D. : DN106