Janie Kulyuru
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BiographyJanie Kulyuru is a coiled basket artist. She comes from Pukatja or formally known as Ernabella Community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in South Australia. Ernabella is one of six main communities which make up these homelands the others being Amata, Pipalyatjara, Fregon, Indulkana and Mimili. Janie has been involved in community projects which built on Aboriginal traditions of using fibre for medicinal, ceremonial and daily living purposes and taking these skills and practices and creating artworks for sale to the world. The Aboriginal women from the APY Lands have taken very easily to making coiled baskets and while out collecting desert grasses for their fibre art the women will visit sacred sites and traditional lands to hunt and gather food and continue to teach the next generation, their children and grandchildren, about country.
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