Wave of Fish Wall at Altona North Early Childhood Centre

This ceramic mural acknowledges the traditional owners of the Land, the Yulukit Wilum People of the Boonwarrung Language Group. The mural is of a big wave that contains words and native fish made out of clay by the 3 year old and four year old children of the early childhood centre in 2012.

The ceramic mural was assembled by community artist Debbie Qadri. The words and spelling for the text were sought from the Boonwarrung Elder Aunty Carolyn, who generously helped us.

The text reads: We'd like to pay our respects to the Yulukit Wilum of the Boonwarrung language group, the Ancestors of the land on which we stand. We also pay our respects to our Ancestors and to our Elders past and present. Womin djeka mirum bikk bikk narm derp borphen uther wilum. Welcome to our beautiful home, land of the great bay. Thankyou to Aunty Caroline for giving us the correct words.

Here are some details of the native fish that the pre-school children made from clay.

more details of this project can be seen at: http://waveoffishwall.blogspot.com.au/