Wandjuk Marika : life story / as told to Jennifer Isaacs
- Bib ID:
- 2279737
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Marika, Wandjuk, 1927-1987
- Description:
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- St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1995
- 176 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0702225649 (paperback)
- Summary:
-
Biography of Yolngu statesman and artist Wandjuk Marika; impact of World War II, missionaries and anthropologists in Arnhem Land; interactions with mining company Nabalco; land rights; Aboriginal Arts Board; copyright; bark painting; traditional culture; sacred dilly bag; ceremonies; Djankawu-Creation story; crocodile hunting.
- First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
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- Defence - World War II
- Art - Artists
- Stories and motifs - Crocodiles
- Politics and Government - Political action - Land rights
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects - Boards
- Technology - Dilly bags
- Religion - Rites - Djankawu creation
- Law - Intellectual property
- Hunting - Crocodile
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Art - Bark painting
- Art - Painting - Bark
- Land rights - Mining industry
- Yolngu people (NT SD53)
- Nhulunbuy / Gove (East Arnhem Land NTSD53-04)
- Nhulunbuy / Gove (East Arnhem Land NT SD53-04)
- Subject:
-
- Marika, Wandjuk, 1927-1987
- Aboriginal Australians -- Biography
- Musicians -- Australia -- Biography
- Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- History
- Bark painting -- Australia
- Aboriginal Australians -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Politics and government
- Other authors/contributors:
- Isaacs, Jennifer, 1946-
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1995
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