Yapa : peintres aborigenes de Balgo et Lajamanu / textes reunis par Barbara Glowczewski
- Bib ID:
- 1390345
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Paris : Baudoin Lebon, c1991
- 171 p. : ill. (some col.), ports.
- ISBN:
- 2876880202
- Summary:
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Includes sections by Barbara Glowczewski, Christiane Senn, Michael Rae and Sylvie Poirier; historical and cultural context of acrylic art produced by Balgo and Lajamanu artists; brief biographies and discussion of individual artists; relation of law to dreaming and mens and womens art; skin names and subsections; substantial explanation of motifs and myths depicted; extended account of eight myths; - Digging Stick - single women, Wind - two men cannibals, Medicine-Men, Invincible - childhood of Wind Brothers, Rain - two transgressors, Rain and Rainbow snake , Stone Curlew - fire messenger, Birds, Plants and Animal Dreaming.
- Notes:
- Text in French and English.
- First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
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- Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
- Health - Treatments - Traditional - Clever people
- Children
- Art - Painting - Acrylic
- Art - Acrylic painting
- Technology - Wood - Digging sticks
- Stories and motifs - Birds
- Stories and motifs - Plants
- Stories and motifs - Wind
- Language - Vocabulary - Plant names
- Art - Artists
- Health - Treatments - Traditional - Clever People
- Stories and motifs - Rain and storms
- Language - Vocabulary - Animal names
- Stories and motifs - Rainbow serpent
- Social organisation - Kinship - Kinship terms
- Cannibalism
- Stories and motifs - Fire
- Stories and motifs - Cultural heroes
- Enterprises - Arts and crafts
- Art - Sand and ground design
- Environment - Land management - Fire
- Luritja / Loritja language (C7.1) (NT SG52-04)
- Warlpiri language (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Luritja / Loritja people (C7.1) (NT SG52-04)
- Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Western Desert (WA SF51, SF52, SG51, SG52)
- Balgo / Wirrimanu (Central WA Tanami Desert SF52-02)
- Lajamanu / Hooker Creek (Central NT SE52-08, SE52-12)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Glowczewski, Barbara
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1991
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