What do they represent? Jacqueline Wales: So they are impressions of boab nuts which fall from trees, and this is by an artist who went out to Western Australia, to Ningbing Range, and she was ...

While carving the nuts from the Kimberley boab trees has been a traditional art form for over a century, casting sculptures from the engraved designs has never been done before. The sculptures ...

Jaylene Lawford helps her uncle Robert Dann to process boab tree nuts. Source: SBS “With the knowledge I am teaching younger ones, it empowers them to take it further as well,” Robert added.

No, there a few metres back from the pebbly shore sits a small, chunky boab tree, its swollen ... the case of the nuts as a potent vitamin C supply; the hollowed trunks, which can grow as wide ...

After two years of fieldwork, a group of researchers and First Nations Australians have announced the discovery of centuries-old carvings on 12 boab trees in Australia’s Tanami Desert.

This is part of the Bindam Mie range, too. This year, Dann expects to pick up to four tonnes of nuts from the 3000-odd boab trees that are dotted around the Kimberley region to make the boab ...