Yalangbara : art of the Djang'kawu / produced in partnership with Banduk Marika and other members of the Rirratjingu clan, north-east Arnhem Land ; edited by Margie West
- Bib ID:
- 4385966
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
-
- Darwin, N.T. : Charles Darwin University Press, 2008
- 206 p. : col. ill., ports., map ; 28 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780980384673
- Summary:
-
"Yalangbara is the first indigenous art publication to focus upon one significant ancestral site. It has been produced on behalf of members of the Rirratjingu clan to celebrate Yalangbara (Port Bradshaw), the landing site of the Djangkawu ancestors, the law-givers and progenitors of the people throughout north-east Arnhem Land. Their creative activities are depicted by three generations of talented Marika artists, including Mawalan 1, Mathaman, Milirrpum, Roy, Wandjuk, Banduk, Dhuwarrwarr, Mawalan 2, Jimmy Barrmula and Wanyubi Marika. The accompanying text examines aspects of Yolngu (Aboriginal) aesthetics and material culture, history, myth, land ownership and copyright to show the complex interrelationship of these themes in Yolngu life. Margie West AM holds the honorary position of Emeritus Curator of Aboriginal Art at the Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. She is an anthropologist with over thirty years of curatorial experience in indigenous art. Since 1972 she has curated over forty semi-permanent and touring Aboriginal art exhibitions and has published extensively on Aboriginal art. Some of the recent publications she has edited include Transitions (2000), Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award: celebrating 20 years (2004), ReCoil, change and exchange in coiled fibre art' (2007). She was also co-editor with Hetti Perkins on the One sun one moon publication (2006)."--Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
-
- "Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory."--T.p. verso.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 198-203.
- Subject:
-
- Art, Aboriginal Australian
- Rirratjingu (Australian people) -- Northern Territory -- Yirrkala
- Art - Crafts - Baskets and basketmaking
- Rirratjingu people (N140) (NT SD53-03)
- Sites - Sites of significance
- Yolngu people (NT SD53)
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Art - Artists
- Art - Painting - Bark
- History - Biographies - Indigenous
- Art - Sculpture - Carving - Wood
- Art - Print and printmaking
- Religion - Dreaming - Creation / Cosmology
- Art - Drawing - Crayon drawing
- Material culture
- Religion - Rites - Djankawu creation
- Yalangbara (East Arnhem Land SD53-04)
- Yirrkala (East Arnhem Land SD53-04)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
You may copy under some circumstances, for example you may copy a portion for research or study. Order a copy through Copies Direct to the extent allowed under fair dealing. Contact us for further information about copying.
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2008
Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate. Other access conditions may also apply. For more information please see: Copyright in library collections.
Request this item
Request this item to view in the Library’s reading room.
Feedback
Similar items
- N̲uwayak / [by Rarriwuy Marika and Dela Munungurr]
- Rainbow, sugarbag and moon : two artists of the stone country, Bardayal Nadjamerrek and Mick Kubarkku / Margie West
- Djalkiri wanga = The land is my foundation : 50 years of Aboriginal art from Yirrkala, Northeast Arnhem Land / Gillian Hutcherson
- Ramingining : arte aborigen australiano de la Tierra de Arnhem / [edited by] Djon Mundine
- Aboriginal art of Australia / Douglass Baglin and Barbara Mullins