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BUNDA ART | 'Melicope Elleryana (Julgil / Pink Euodia)' | Mixed media

BUNDA ART | 'Melicope Elleryana (Julgil / Pink Euodia)' | Mixed media

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Melicope elleryana

Yidinji word for this tree is Julgil which is commonly called Pink Euodia.

"At Yarrabah we called this the Blue Ulysses Butterfly tree because these butterflies would lay their eggs on the leaf. Thus began the Ulysses Butterfly cycle of starting from an egg, changing into a cocoon and an emerging caterpillar from which the glorious Blue Ulysses Butterfly emerged.

To traditional Yarrabah people, the resin from the Julgil tree was used to bond the spear tips which were then bound with the twine made from certain string trees. The spear tips needed to be held strongly in order to help the hunters catch their prey.

As a child we would collected the resin by bruising the bark of the Yulgil tree which would slowly leak the resin, and we returned in a week or so to collect the resin that hard formed.

I remember how proud I was when I was first permitted to actually hold and use one of these spears and my first memory is catching fish as I walked along the beach.    In time I became very skilled, and even now in my old age, I still have a good eye for spearing a fish.”

 

- Roy Gray 'Wugan' & Jo Ann Beikoff 'Milba'

 

BUNDA ART | 'Melicope Elleryana (Julgil / Pink Euodia)' | 2025 | Mixed media  | H 1600 x W 350 mm

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