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In collaboration with four artist from Badu, including myself, we have been selected to commemorate Kapiu Masi Gagai with a lino print artwork. Kapiu Masi Gagai (c.1894-1946), pearler, boatman, mission worker, carpenter, and soldier, was born about 1894 probably on Mabuiag Island, Torres Strait, Queensland, second son of Newa Gagai and his wife Kubi. Kapiu belonged to the Kodal (crocodile) clan and the Badu tribe, and was later adopted—in the Islander way—by a married couple