NETTA LOOGATHA | ‘Fish Net – Mijilda II' | Painting / acrylic on linen board Moa Island I in Love Am Grown'

I in Love Am Grown' | Exhibition Catalogue

This image depicts an uncle and two boys resting during the midday heat

Authors: Russell Milledge

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

but individual islanders and island clans did have land under crop

NETTA LOOGATHA | ‘Fish Net – Mijilda II' | Painting / acrylic on linen board Moa Island I in Love Am Grown'"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