The title of this print created by Aboriginal artist Dennis Nona evokes a coconut, full of milk and tasty flesh. The branches form clusters from which the nuts grow. Before the fruit began to form, the Torres Strait Islanders had a custom of climbing coconut trees to place turtle eggs there, so that the best possible coconuts would develop. This custom is no longer practiced today, but Dennis Nona remembers helping his father perform this ritual on the family coconut plantation in the early 1980s.
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