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Dennis Nona
Dennis Nona - "Gidigidil" (DN088)

Gidigidil  [ Canards et écrevisses ] 2005 : 1 exemplaire disponible encadré + 2 exemplaires non encadrés
Eau-forte, éd.99, 36,5 x 30 cm

Les gens croient que Badu est une île tropicale, sans marais, mais c’est faux. Il y a des marais, des canards et des écrevisses. Les Kagul sont ces écrevisses que l’on pêche surtout à l’époque de la mousson. Il suffit d’attendre dans l’eau pour qu’elles approchent et on n’a plus qu’à les attraper. Parfois, elles vous pincent et vous font crier. Il y a aussi les canards et les oies qui viennent de Nouvelle-Guinée au moment de la mousson ; on passe alors beaucoup de temps dans les marais. La mer n’est pas tout, puisque les insulaires peuvent aussi chasser sur terre des animaux comme le porc-épic.

Gidigidil  [Ducks & Yabbies] 2005: 1 framed copy available + 2 unframed
Eau-forte, éd.99, 36,5 x 30 cm

I just want to say that people might think that we are a tropical island and we don’t have swamps and all that, but we do have swamps and we have ducks and yabbies, which is called Kagul in my language.  Kagul are those yabbies – we have them – and we do hunt for them towards the monsoon season.  We hunt them on the swamps but anytime sometimes we go, but mainly monsoon time we go and you just stand in the water and they crawl up the leg and you catch them.  Sometimes they bite you and get people going “ahh” you know.  We have these ducks that come during monsoon from New Guinea – ducks, geese – that’s really a good time also we spend a lot of time with the swamps at that time.  We catch them to eat them – the ducks and geese.  Yeah that’s just to say that maybe people think that most of our thing is to do with the sea but we do hunt on the land and we do have tortoise on the island – all those things, such as porcupines.  They exist on the island.

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