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Great Dividing Range - Australia's Culture PortalHowever, Aborigines had inhabited the Blue Mountains for at least 14,000 years before Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth found the track through the mountain range. Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, New South Wales. Other explorers, such as Hume and Hovell, Ma...
Traditional Indigenous architecture was domestic - across a range of well crafted and technologically designed shelters and residential camps. Courtesy of Queensland Museum and Aboriginal Environments Research Centre. Annual base camp structures, whether...
For example, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders these ceremonies bring together all aspects of their culture - song, dance, body decoration, sculpture and painting. Anny Nungarrayi (centre) with other Warlpiri women perform a traditional dance dur...
Aboriginal dancers telling Dreamtime stories at the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony. The Dreaming for Australian Indigenous people (sometimes referred to as the Dreamtime or Dreamtimes) is when the Ancestral Beings moved across the land and created life...
While tools varied by group and location, Aboriginal people all had implements such as knives, scrapers, axe-heads, spears, various vessels for eating and drinking, and digging sticks. Aboriginal people achieved two world firsts with stone technology. A...
It also contains links to sites that may use images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures are complex and diverse. In Australia, Indigenous communities keep their cultural heritage alive by passin...
Modern Australian poetry seeks to tell Australian stories and truths with a poetic significance so that 'they sear into the soul and can never be untold' (Dorothy Porter). The Jindyworobaks encouraged Australian writers to express themselves in language ...
However, the first zoo in Australia, Melbourne Zoo, wasn't established until 1862. Taronga Zoo and Western Plains Zoo are jointly administered New South Wales public zoos. The zoo features both Australian native species and exotic species of mammals, bi...
Australian folklore, its traditions, customs and beliefs are based on both Indigenous and also non-Indigenous people's knowledge and experience of history in Australia. Some of Australia's folklore remembers the relationship between Europeans and Aborigi...
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Warmun Art Centre - Contemporary Aboriginal Art (more info)
The Warmun Art Centre, at Turkey Creek, via Kununurra in Western Australia, provides artists of the Warmun community with economic independence and the opportunity to share their Gija culture and country with visitors. The Centre operates as a studio and
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Lesson Outcomes: Aboriginal Dreaming Stories (website Australian Children's Television Foundation )Lesson Outcomes: Aboriginal Dreaming Stories 1.7 Recognises that Aboriginal children and Torres Strait Islander children are Australian children, e.g. listen to and discuss dreaming stories that indicate indigenous people's long period of occupation and m...
Description: Students view some aboriginal dreamtime stories, research further stories, make costumes to act our a story and finally write or draw their own dreamtime stories.. Related segment: Into the unknown ep 06A LIFT OFF 1 ACTF Adapted from book for...
In years gone, the Aboriginal people collected these seeds in a most unusual way. "Aknangkere Growth" by Gloria Petyarre depicts a type of flora to be found in Gloria's country of Aknangkere- located in the Utopia region. This edible Grass Seed, from a ...
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In years gone, the Aboriginal people collected these seeds in a most unusual way. "Aknangkere Growth" by Gloria Petyarre depicts a type of flora to be found in Gloria's country of Aknangkere- located in the Utopia region. This edible Grass Seed, from a ...
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Jessie's dream, a story of the 'Relief of Lucknow'. [music] / written by Grace Campbell ; composed by John Blockley. Lucknow (India) -- History -- Siege, 1857 -- Songs and music. ...
Jessie's dream, a story of the 'Relief of Lucknow'. [music] / written by Grace Campbell ; composed by John Blockley. Lucknow (India) -- History -- Siege, 1857 -- Songs and music. ...
In Central Australia, the Goanna is a totemic spirit and an Aboriginal Goanna Painting refers to the works of Aboriginal artists who paint their Goanna Dreaming to honour their ancestral spirit. > The Aboriginal Goanna Painting refers to both works on bar...
The Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming is one of the most significant Dreamtime Stories for the famous Petyarre sisters of Utopia. > In the Utopia region of Central Australia there is one unique Lizard called the Mountain Devil Lizard or Thorny Devil Lizard....
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