Minor Yam

  • Artist (Weaver)
Minor Yam is from the Kowanyama region on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula. She works with Margaret Yam creating large open-woven rectangular bags, examples of which are in the collection of the Campbelltown Arts Centre.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 2007
Name
Minor Yam
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Weaver)
Active Period
  • 1997-
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
Yes
Initial Record Data Source
  • Storylines Project, COFA, UNSW

Kunjen weaver, Minor Yam is from the Kowanyama region on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula. She works with Margaret Yam on large open-woven rectangular bags that are in the collection of Campbelltown Arts Centre. These bags known as “Umbins” are made from the leaves of cabbage palms and natural dyes and were traditionally used for collecting and processing yams, corms, seeds and fruits.

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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Margaret Yam
Artist (Weaver)
Abmin (String bag)
Date
2007
Loop-woven bark fibre string
Umbin, String Yam Hunting Bag
Date
1997
collection of Campbelltown Arts Centre
Collections
Floating Life
2009
Exhibition ()
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
http://qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/floating_life
Gatherings
2001
Exhibition ()
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, QLD
Citations:
  • (2009), Floating Life: Contemporary Aboriginal Fibre Art, (p150 Place: Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD)
  • Demozay, Marion, (2001), Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia, (Place: Keeaira Press, Southport, Qld.)