Title Piercing the ground : Balgo women's image making and relationship to country / Christine Watson

Published Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2003

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
WATERFT ART&ARCH	704.039915 Wat/Ptg		AVAILABLE

Description 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm Contents 1. Glimpses of Balgo -- 2. Unravelling Layers of Being and Thought -- 3. Touching the Ground: Public Sand Drawing -- 4. Contemporary Painting: Practice and History 1979-2001 -- 5. Touching and the Structures of Ceremony -- 6. Touching the Ancestors: the Nakarra Nakarra Dreaming Track -- 7. Dialogue and Transformation: Paintings of the Nakarra Nakarra Dreaming Track -- 8. Becoming the Dreaming -- App. Nakarra Nakarra Song Cycle Summary Explores how Balgo women conceive of and produce images and how this embodies their religious beliefs and ceremonial activities in relation to country [from introduction] Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 382-392 Notes Donation. ANU COOP 20120212 Brissenden collection, ANU Library Signed by author 1 copy. ANU Subject Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Balgo Hills Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Balgo Hills -- Rites and ceremonies Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Balgo Hills Kukatja (Australian people) Ngarti (Australian people) Aboriginal Australians -- Women. Sandpaintings. Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Balgo Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Balgo Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Balgo -- Rites and ceremonies Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Balgo Aboriginal Australians -- Painting. Painting, Aboriginal Australian. Women, Aboriginal Australian. Aboriginal Australians -- Rites and ceremonies. Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Balgo Hill Region (W.A.) Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Balgo Hill Region (W.A.) Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Balgo Hill Region (W.A.) Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Balgo Hill Region (W.A.) -- Rites and ceremonies LC no. 2003374245 ISBN 192073130X

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