The Arrernte landscape : a guide to the Dreaming tracks and sites of Alice Springs / by David Brooks for Mparntwe people ; illustrations by Shawn Dobson
- Bib ID:
- 555260
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Brooks, David, 1950-
- Description:
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- Alice Springs, N.T. : Institute for Aboriginal Development, 1995, c1991
- 24 p. : ill., map ; 15 x 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0949659622 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Totemic significance and stories of the environment around Alice Springs, Mparntwe; and the changes that have taken place there; Caterpillar beings; Wild dog creator being; sites viewed from Anzac Hill; sites viewed from Annie Meyer Hill; in the construction of Barrett Drive Ntarlkarle Tyaneme, a site registered under the Aboriginal Sacred Sites Act was dynamited and bulldozed; charges were laid but it was found that the Act was not binding on the Crown; site where visiting caterpillars from Mount Zeil held ceremonies with the Yeperenye caterpillars.
- Notes:
- "First published in 1991 as The Arrente Landscape of Alice Springs" -- t.pverso.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore
- Aranda (Australian people) -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs -- Legends
- Sacred sites (Aboriginal Australian) -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs
- Stories and motifs - Mythological beings
- Religion - Totemism
- Stories and motifs - Caterpillars
- Stories and motifs - Dingoes / dogs
- Sites - Conservation and protection
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Sites - Ceremonial grounds
- Alice Springs (N.T.) -- Folklore
- Tharrarltneme / Annie Meyer Hill (South Central NT SF53-14)
- Mount Zeil (South Central NT SF53-13)
- Mparntwe / Alice Springs (South Central NT SF53-14)
- Ntaripe / Heavitree Gap (South Central NT SF53-14)
- Atnelkentyarliweke / Anzac Hill (South Central NT SF53-14)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
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- Unpublished
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