Gwion gwion : Ngarjno, Ungudman, Banggal, Nyawarra : dulwan mamaa = secret and sacred pathways = geheime und heilige Pfade = chemins secrets et sacres
- Bib ID:
- 2596171
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Koln, [Germany] : Konemann, [2000]
- ©2000
- 335, [1] pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 3829040601 (hardback)
- Summary:
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Account of the Ngarinyin traditions relating country, law and rock art; includes the Great Mother (Jillinya), and Wanjina traditions; interpretation of Bradshaw art; mythology and totemic associations of ancestral beings - origin stories, birds, praying mantis, plants, celestial bodies, sacred objects, crocodile, goanna, red kangaroo, lightning brothers; stone tool typology and manufacture; spear making; rock art painting technique; sites of significance - stone arrangements; relationship to land; burial; initiation - scarification
- Notes:
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- Edited by Jeff Doring.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 336).
- In English, French and German.
- Includes Ngarinyin to english glossary.
- Subject:
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- Ngarinyin language K18
- Ngarinyin / Ungarinyin people (K18) (WA SE52-01)
- Religion - Rites
- Sites - Sites of significance
- Art - Subjects - Gwion Gwion figures
- Art - Subjects - Wandjina
- Ngarinyin (Australian people) -- Rites and ceremonies
- Art, Aboriginal Australian
- Rock paintings -- Western Australia -- Northwest district -- Themes, motives
- Petroglyphs -- Western Australia -- Northwest district -- Themes, motives
- Ngarinyin (Australian people) -- Pictorial works
- Symbolism in art
- East Kimberley area (WA SD52, SE52)
- West Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51)
- Ashton map area (WA East Kimberley SD52-13)
- Mount Elizabeth map area (East Kimberley WA SE52-01)
- Charnley map area (WA West Kimberley SE51-04)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Doring, Jeff, editor
- Also Titled:
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- Secret and sacred pathways of the Ngarinyin aboriginal people of Australia
- Geheime und heilige Pfade der Ngarinyin, Aborigines in Australien
- Chemins secrets et sacres des Ngarinyin, aborigenes d'Australie
- Dulwan mamaa
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- Publication date:
- 2000
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