Ceremony Wear for Granma Coomee
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Ceremony Wear for Granma Coomee
2019
Sharon Mason, Aunty Vivian Mason, Ashweeni Mason, and Savitri Mason,
Walbanja, Yuin
Stringybark, feathers, shells, bones, ochres.
Australian Museum Collection Acquisition
Image: Abram Powell
© Australian Museum
© Australian Museum
Sharon Mason, Aunty Vivian Mason, Ashweeni Mason, and Savitri Mason (Walbanja, Yuin), 2019
Stringybark, feathers, shells, bones, ochres
Australian Museum Collection Acquisition
Remembering Granma Coomee
Our Ancestors are always guiding us so it’s important we remember them, honour them. We made this stringybark ceremony wear for Granma Coomee (Maria Coomee Nulunga, circa 1825-1914) who lived around Ulladulla in the 1800s. She used to share her grandmother’s story about ‘the first time the big white birds came by …’, witnessing Captain Cook sail the Endeavour up the south coast 250 years ago. Watching it on the horizon, the white sails looked like big white wings riding the wind – a giant pelican, a messenger bird, an omen. Sharon Mason (Walbanja, Yuin), 2021
