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Micky Bungkuni BIOGRAPHY
1900 - 1978. Known for: Aboriginal art.
Born into the Lantar Clan, whose Elalamerri estate lay across the Hunter River (Mariawala) basin to the north of Prince Frederick Harbour, Micky Bungkuni was was the senior Wunambal lawman resident... Read full biography
Born into the Lantar Clan, whose Elalamerri estate lay across the Hunter River (Mariawala) basin to the north of Prince Frederick Harbour, Micky Bungkuni was was the senior Wunambal lawman resident at Mowanjum in the 1960s, a position he retained until his death in 1978. Bungkuni’s totemic... Read full biography
Born into the Lantar Clan, whose Elalamerri estate lay across the Hunter River (Mariawala) basin to the north of Prince Frederick Harbour, Micky Bungkuni was was the senior Wunambal lawman resident at Mowanjum in the 1960s, a position he retained until his death in 1978. Bungkuni’s totemic affiliations including the Spotted Nightjar and the Brolga. His clan totem was Lantar – a small, yellow-flowered, holly-leaved, pea-flower, Bossiaea bossiaeoides, locally called Emu-flower.
Born into the Lantar Clan, whose Elalamerri estate lay across the Hunter River (Mariawala) basin to the north of Prince Frederick Harbour, Micky Bungkuni was was the senior Wunambal lawman resident at Mowanjum in the 1960s, a position he retained until his death in 1978. Bungkuni’s totemic affiliations including the Spotted Nightjar and the Brolga. His clan totem was Lantar – a small, yellow-flowered, holly-leaved, pea-flower, Bossiaea bossiaeoides, locally called Emu-flower.
Born into the Lantar Clan, whose Elalamerri estate lay across the Hunter River (Mariawala) basin to the north of Prince Frederick Harbour, Micky Bungkuni was was the senior Wunambal lawman resident at Mowanjum in the 1960s, a position he retained until his death in 1978. Bungkuni’s totemic affiliations including the Spotted Nightjar and the Brolga. His clan totem was Lantar – a small, yellow-flowered, holly-leaved, pea-flower, Bossiaea bossiaeoides, locally called Emu-flower.
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Born into the Lantar Clan, whose Elalamerri estate lay across the Hunter River (Mariawala) basin to the north of Prince Frederick Harbour, Micky Bungkuni was was the senior Wunambal lawman resident at Mowanjum in the 1960s, a position he retained until his death in 1978. Bungkuni’s totemic affiliations including the Spotted Nightjar and the Brolga. His clan totem was Lantar – a small, yellow-flowered, holly-leaved, pea-flower, Bossiaea bossiaeoides, locally called Emu-flower.