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Home (inside): Wemba Wemba Elder Fay Muir

Home (inside): Wemba Wemba Elder Fay Muir

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Home (inside): Wemba Wemba Elder Fay Muir
Sarah Rhodes, photographer
silver gelatin print, 60x60cm
Koorie Heritage Trust, 2011

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Fay Muir works with the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages, teaching juveniles in detention.

She was the lead artist for the Wemba Wemba cloak and wore it at the Opening Ceremony of the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. Aunty Fay worked under the cultural guidance of Boonwurrung Elder, Carolyn Briggs. She lives in Geelong.

Click here to watch Interview: Wemba Wemba Elder Fay Muir.

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