Keeping the Wanjinas fresh : Sam Woolagoodja and the enduring power of Lalai / Valda Blundell & Donny Woolagoodja with members of the Mowanjum Aboriginal Community
- Bib ID:
- 3255330
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Blundell, Valda 1941-
- Description:
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- Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2005
- 293 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1920731687
- Summary:
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Story of Donny Woolagoodja, son of Sam Woolagoodja; learning the stories of the Wanjina and Lalai; shift from Kumunya Mission to Mawanjum; paintings as title to land; repainting at rock art sites; plates of Wanjina paintings by Donny Woolagoodja and other artists; includes photograph of 'Wanjina Awakening Spirit' designed by Donny Wollagoodja and Peter England for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, Sydney, 2000.
- Notes:
- Bibliographical references (p. 279-285) and index.
- Subject:
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- Woolagoodja, Sam
- Worora (Australian people)
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
- Sport - Olympic Games
- Art - Painting
- Worrorra people (K17) (WA SD51-16)
- History - Biographies - Indigenous
- Stories and motifs - Wandjina
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Art - Rock art
- Stories and motifs - Ancestor spirits
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1851-
- Mowanjum (WA West Kimberley SE51-07)
- Kunmunya (WA West Kimberley SE51-07)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
- Keeping the Wanjinas fresh
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1793
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1773
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