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  2. Australian Aboriginal culture - Wikipedia

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    Australian Aboriginal culture includes a number of practices and ceremonies centered on a belief in the Dreamtime and other mythology. Reverence and respect for the land and oral traditions are emphasised. The words "law" and "lore", the latter relating to the customs and stories passed down through the generations, are commonly used ...

  3. List of Australian Aboriginal mythological figures - Wikipedia

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    Yawkyawk, Aboriginal shape-shifting mermaids who live in waterholes, freshwater springs, and rock pools, cause the weather and are related by blood or through marriage (or depending on the tradition, both) to the rainbow serpent Ngalyod. Yee-Na-Pah, an Arrernte thorny devil spirit girl who marries and echidna spirit man.

  4. Aboriginal Australians - Wikipedia

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    Different approaches have been taken by non-Aboriginal scholars in trying to understand and define Aboriginal culture and societies, some focusing on the micro-level (tribe, clan, etc.), and others on shared languages and cultural practices spread over large regions defined by ecological factors.

  5. Australian Aboriginal artefacts - Wikipedia

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    A Keeping Place (usually capitalised) is an Aboriginal community-managed place for the safekeeping of repatriated cultural material [53] or local cultural heritage items, cultural artefacts, art and/or knowledge. [54] [55] Krowathunkooloong Keeping Place in Gippsland, Victoria is one example of a Keeping Place. [56]

  6. Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology - Wikipedia

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    Aboriginal spirituality includes the Dreamtime (the Dreaming), songlines, and Aboriginal oral literature. Aboriginal spirituality often conveys descriptions of each group's local cultural landscape, adding meaning to the whole country's topography from oral history told by ancestors from some of the earliest recorded history. Most of these ...

  7. Category:Australian Aboriginal culture - Wikipedia

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    Australian Aboriginal cultural history (2 C, 37 P) E. Australian Aboriginal elders (2 C, 53 P) L. Australian Aboriginal languages (13 C, 17 P) M.

  8. History of Indigenous Australians - Wikipedia

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    Aboriginal Australians along the coast and rivers were also expert fishermen. Some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people relied on the dingo as a companion animal, using it to assist with hunting and for warmth on cold nights. Aboriginal women's implements, including a coolamon lined with paperbark and a digging stick. This woven basket ...

  9. Indigenous Australian art - Wikipedia

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    Kleinert, S. & Neale, M. (eds.) (2000) The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, Melbourne: Oxford University Press; McCulloch, S. (1999) Contemporary Aboriginal Art: A guide to the rebirth of an ancient culture, St Leonards (Sydney): Allen & Unwin; McIvor, Roy (2010). Cockatoo: My Life in Cape York. Stories and Art. Roy McIvor ...