One of Australia’s most sustainable and ethical premium swimwear brands, GALI Swimwear offers beautiful designs, innovative fabrications and exceptional fit and quality. With each design, GALI Swimwear translates authentic First Nations art into mens swimwear with classic cuts and using premium recycled materials. The Ngalyipi swim brief is a bold piece, with vibrant purples, blues and whites that are symbolic of the vines that played important roles in medicines and the initiation ceremonies of young Aboriginal men.

Length: Size XS. Our model is 183.5cm (6’0”) tall with a 81cm (32”) waist.

- Made in Australia
- 6.5 cm side width
- Premium recycled material
- Fully lined in front
- White internal drawstring

ARTWORK STORY

This Dreaming [story] is associated with a place called Purturlu (Mount Theo), north-west of Yuendumu.

'Ngalyipi' [snake vine] is a green plant found on sandy spinifex plains and sandhills that climb up the trunks and branches of trees and shrubs. ‘Ngalyipi’ is depicted in paintings due to its medical use and importance in initiation ceremonies of young Japanangka/Japangardi men. For medical use; the vines are used as tourniquets, and the leaves and vines are used as bandages for wounds. Warlpiri people chew the leaves to treat colds and tie the stems around the forehead to cure headaches.