Laura Dance Festival
Laura dance has been a meeting place for Cape York Weavers since its incepting in the 1980's
Wilma Walker and Rhonda Brim & Okka Wikka have provided workshops and demonstrations throughout its history
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"Thoe is a talented master weaver 7 teacher from Cow Bay"
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"Jenuarrie @ Arts Qld Cairns supported this Weaving Event @ laura 2007:"
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"This grass basket is called the PUNYU: Lockhart weavers have knowledge of the dyes intact."
"Making Lockhart's tradtional grass basket"
"Lockhart Master weaver at Laura 07"
"Master Weaver involved in Lockharts renaissance of the PUNYU & beach hibiscus net baskets"
"Evelyn Omeenyo: in 2000 came to the South Pacific Festival of Arts as one of the Australian delegate weavers from FNQ"
"Arts Qld supported Lockhart weavers to come down and weave at the Laura Dance Festival"
"Evelyn Omeenyo: Lockhart Community: she is a Master Weaver involved in a renaissance of basket weaving in Lockhart."
"Stuart weaving a coconut leaf hat"
"Stuart weaving a matt"
"This dancers grass skirt is fresh new and undyed: the adults wear the dyed skirts"
"Natural dyes like the Noni Fruit root: have been used to make the brown bands in the skirts"
"The grass skirts reflect the natural dying that has been done to this skirt"
"Here you can see the costumes that the children proudly wear"
"The Master Weavers make these costumes each year and teach younger woman to take on this community responsibility"
"Arm Band: showing twining and simple knotting skills"
<"the beauty of a natural fibre grass skirt"
"Showing the adaptation that the grass skirt pattern can be applied to: for costume decoration"
"This pandanus headband usually has plain and dyed weaving fibre strands: giving the band a distinctive pattern"
"Pandanus pattern that can be adapted to other body parts: here it is used as a head band"
"Neck decoration using a pattern that is used to make grass skirts"
"Leg decoration using a pattern that is used to make grass skirts"
"This grass basket: shows how you can spread the weave to create larger open gaps between the lines"
"Wilma Walker showing the start of her black palm basket"
"The way you hold the grass basket in your hands, as you begin to weave: takes time to grasp the way you do it"
"Each Indigenous first people's grass basket: would have had their own distinctive way of starting their basket"
"Wilma Walkers fine Black Palm work"
"Rhonda Brim showing one of her dilly bag baskets"
"Rhonda Brim teaching visitors the traditional grass basket pattern at the Weaving Workshops at the Laura Dance Festival"
