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Aboriginal art symbols, on Art Ark - gives meanings of some common symbols; Guide to Indigenous Art Centres (Australian Art Collector magazine) "Country, memory and art: Understanding Indigenous art", audio + transcript, by Howard Morphy, John Carty, and Michael Pickering. National Museum of Australia, 8 December 2010
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.
Australian Aboriginal art has a history spanning thousands of years. Aboriginal artists continue these traditions using both modern and traditional materials in their artworks. Aboriginal art is the most internationally recognizable form of Australian art.
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]
Kangaroo totemic ancestor – Australian Aboriginal bark painting, Arnhem Land, c. 1915. Kangaroos, Wallabies and other Macropodidae have become emblems and symbols of Australia, as well as appearing in popular culture both internationally and within Australia itself.
Gwion Gwion (Tassel) figures wearing ornate costumes. The Gwion Gwion rock paintings, Gwion figures, Kiro Kiro or Kujon (also known as the Bradshaw rock paintings, Bradshaw rock art, Bradshaw figures and the Bradshaws) are one of the two major regional traditions of rock art found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Aboriginal rock art is the oldest continuous art tradition in the world, dating as far back as 60,000 years. From the Gwion Gwion and Wondjina imagery in the Kimberley to the Sydney rock engravings , it is spread across hundreds of thousands of sites, making Australia the richest continent in terms of prehistoric art .
This practice only lasted a short time before these secret sacred symbols were hidden by artist like Clifford Possum behind veils of dots. [7] Most of the symbols people associate with aboriginal art from this region like concentric circles, U shapes and wavy lines all come from earlier designs on tjurunga.
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