| Description |
[xii], 92 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm |
| Summary |
Introduction by Phillip Roberts; brief outline of Aboriginal life, antiquity of human occupation of Australia, origins, religious background to art, adaptation to environment, effects of European contact, social organization; (Arnhem Land) moieties, sections, marriage, breaches of marriage law, division of Labour, spirit beliefs; recounts authors first contacts with Yirawala, gives version of Maung myth, notes on cooking geese, reproduces biographical information on Lazarus Lami-Lamitaken from taped letter, Maung myths; Goulburn Is. mortuary ceremony, spirit beliefs; attitude of Yirawala to mining, prospectors and land; Gunwinggu myth on origin of didgeridoo; account of filming expedition to take Yirawala to home territory; versions of 5 myths - Lumah-lumah, the big Maraian man; Namarrgine, the birdman; Gurgurr, the moon man; Booma-booma, the big man; Namorren, the lightning man, each with reproductions of series of bark paintings with relevant notes in margin; profusely illustrated with examples of Yirawalas paintings |
| Notes |
Australian Aboriginal paintings. Yirawala, 1894-. Reproductions (ANB/PRECIS SIN 600159280) |
| Subject |
Yirawala, 1894-1976.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Art.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Art -- 20th century.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Art.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Biography
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Religion
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Art -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
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Art, Aboriginal Australian -- 20th century.
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Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
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Art, Aboriginal Australian.
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Painters -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Biography.
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Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
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| Genre/Form |
Art.
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Biographies.
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| Author |
Yirawala, 1894-1976.
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| LC no. |
73331093 |
| ISBN |
0701605820 |
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