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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 3217 |
| Catalog #: | 445542 | |
| Clip Number: | 445542-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | Aust/nz 42 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Australia, Tiwi Island | |
| Year Shot: | 1995 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | EXHIBITIONS: Historical | |
| Description: | pukumani poles tellling story of purukuparli (30:35), dupun (hollow logs where bones of dead are placed) (31:16), mortuary story (painting of hollow burial logs) (33:11), sorcery paintings (35:51), sorcery paintings/black magic: women adultresses- barbs in joints (36:01), more of same (37:15), moon spirit (38:27), Yawk Yawk spirit (39:39), Yawk Yawk spirit (40:26), 3 spirits of rock country Mimis- mischievious spirits (41:45), Laindjung's custodian- ngulumung (1 of 2 most imp beings for Yirrita-from waterhole) (44:15), ancestral being Barama (1 of 2 most imp beings for Yirrita-from waterhole @Guludji) (46:21), Moon morning & evening stars (49:42), **Kangaroo ceremony (b/f started to use dot & cross-hatching to cover sacredness of paintings) (53:22), Rain Dreaming (dot art used to hide sacred meaning in painting) (56:37), Old man dreaming (00:22) | |
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