Australian Aboriginal paintings in western and central Arnhem Land : temporal sequences and elements of style in Cadell River and Deaf Adder Creek art / E.J. Brandl
- Bib ID:
- 1699628
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Brandl, E. J. (Eric Joseph)
- Description:
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- Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1973
- 214 p. : chiefly ill., maps, plates (1 col.) ; 37 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0855750294
- Series:
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- Australian aboriginal studies ; no. 52.
- Prehistory and material culture series ; no. 9.
- Summary:
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p.1-36; Brief outline of country in Deaf Adder Creek & Cadell River area, first alien contacts, rock art as records of the past (present impossibility of dating), later alien visitors; Cadell River - lists locations with brief descriptions, figures 6-12 & bark paintings showing X - ray styles, figures 1374, types of brush, storage of clay pigment, mural painted at Bamyili, sacred Maraian objects; p.3770; Aboriginal (Ngalgbon/Rembarnga) informants biographical information; figures 75-155, including comparative styles of boomerangs & spears depicted, depiction of footprints; p.71-104; Data collection and processing (conversion of field drawings to line drawings, methods of obtaining meanings from informants; figures 156-241; p.105-164; Painting materials, pigments and techniques (bark, brushes, fixatives, pigments - names, sources, other colours, ritual classification), plates I-LIV; p.165-170; Conventions of style (Mimi art associated with the past); perspective, symbolic representations; main styles, characteristics of 1) Mimi art, 2) X - ray art, attempt to classify art into 4 types; p.171178; Temporal sequences, lack of reliable dating methods, relative age, changes in symbolistic representation, early Mimi art, late Mimi art, transition from Mimi art to X - ray art; p.179-182; Spirit beings & mytho - totemic motifs; p.183-187; Cadell River art - places and affinities, phases of style, general description of the area & the site locations, similarities in style with Kimberley art; p.188-205; Documentation for plates & text figures; p.206-207; Glossary of Aboriginal terms (mainly Djauan, Gunwinggu, Maielli, Ngalgbon, Rembarnga & Tiwi)
- Notes:
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- Index.
- Includes glossary.
- Bibliography: p. 208-209.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians. Rock paintings & bark paintings. Northern Territory. Cadell River region & Deaf Adder Creek region. Illustrations
- Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory -- Deaf Adder Creek Region
- Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Pictorial works
- Stories and motifs - Mythological beings
- Jawoyn people (N57) (NT SD53-09)
- Rembarrnga people (N73) (NT SD53-06)
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects
- Gunwinggu / Gunwinygu / Kunwinjku people (N65) (NT SD53-02)
- Art - Mural and street art
- Art - Rock art - Painting
- Language - Vocabulary
- Gunwinggu / Gunwinygu / Kunwinjku language (N65) (NT SD53-02)
- Art - Art motifs - X-Ray
- Ngalkbun people (N76) (NT SD53-06)
- Art - Rock art - Dating and attribution
- Settlement and contacts - Macassans and Indonesians
- Art - Painting - Bark
- Art - Subjects - Dynamic figures / Mimi
- Weapons - Spears
- Art - Art motifs - Track and footprint
- Tiwi people (N20) (NT SC52-16)
- Mayali / Mayawarli people (N44) (NT SD53-01)
- Religion - Totemism
- Weapons - Boomerangs
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers
- Tiwi Islands (NT SC52-15, SC52-16)
- West Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51)
- Barunga / Bamyili (NT Top End Upper Roper SD53-09)
- Deaf Adder Creek / Gorge (Kakadu, NT SD53-05)
- Cadell River (Central Arnhem Land SD53-02)
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1973
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