Torres Strait islander students, boys and girls from Djarragun College, perform a dance from Mabuiag Island in the central Torres Strait, during the Townsville Cultural Fest.

Djarragun College students from the Torres Strait islands perform traditional dances during the Townsville Cultural Fest. This is a mixed group of boys and girls from different islands. The dance is from Boigu Island, in the far north of the Torres Strait. The song is by Afa Anau …

Djarragun College students from the Torres Strait islands perform a dance from Badu Island, in the Central Western Torres Strait, during the Townsville Cultural Fest. The song is called “Gumi Rangadh”.

Torres Strait islander boys, students from Djarragun College, march onto the stage during the Townsville Cultural Fest. They perform the “Paddle Dance” from Boigu Island (just south of Papua New Guinea), in the far north of the Torres Strait; the song, “Kutau Gutha Thia”, …

Boys from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns in north Queensland, Australia, perform the "Kab Kar", a traditional dance from Mer (Murray Island) in the eastern Torres Strait Islands, at the Townsville Cultural Fest in 2010. They wear the "dhari" headdress made …

Boys from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns in north Queensland, Australia, perform traditional dances from Mer (Murray Island) in the eastern Torres Strait Islands, at the Townsville Cultural Fest in 2010. They are accompanied by drumming and singing.

Men from Barunga (formerly known as Bamyili) in the Katherine region of the Northern Territory enter Lajamanu on the occasion of the Northern Territory achieving self-government on 1 July 1978; they go through the new police station and perform a dance, typical of southern Arnhem …

Men from Lajamanu, an Aboriginal community about 550 kilometres south west of Katherine on the edge of the Tanami Desert are painted up and perform "purlapa", men's corroboree, at dusk. This was recorded with an old 8 mm film camera, so the technical quality is poor.

Scenes during the Rodeo in 1978 at Seven mile in Lajamanu, a Warlpiri Aboriginal community about 550 kilometres south west of Katherine on the edge of the Tanami Desert. There is horse and bull riding, "catch the greasy pig" for the kids and a school food stall. This was recorded …

Women of the Warlpiri people from Central Australia perform a traditional dance at the yearly Cultural Festival in Barunga, an Aboriginal community 80 kilometres from Katherine.

A Welcome song and dance by young girls from Thurday Island, in the Torres Strait Islands, at the start of the Croc Festival, a festival with participants of indigenous schools in northern Queensland, held on Thursday Island in 2001.

Young Aboriginal people perform a dance associated with the brolga, a large water bird that has great significance in the culture of Arnhem Land, during the Barunga Festival in 1995. A Song Man with clap sticks and a didjeridu accompanies the dance, characterised by high leaps …

Pintubi women perform a traditional dance in the school grounds in Walangurru or Kintore, an Aboriginal community 530 kilometres west of Alice Springs in Central Australia.

Young boys from Borroloola perform the “Aeroplane Dance”, about a Second World War event when an American bomber came down near there and a crew member was rescued by local Aborigines.

A special dance is performed in Lajamanu, a Warlpiri Aboriginal community about 550 kilometres south west of Katherine on the edge of the Tanami Desert. It is performed welcoming important visitors, during celebrations when the Northern Territory received self-government on 1 …

Warlpiri men sing a traditional “Yilpinyi” song cycle to be recorded with a tape recorder in Lajamanu, a Warlpiri Aboriginal community about 550 kilometres south west of Katherine on the edge of the Tanami Desert.

Harry 'Japangardi' Jones tells the story of how Yuendumu got its name from a watermelon eating Donkey.

Dunggula tells the Bangerang creation story of the Murray river known to the Bangerang community as Dunggula, in the Goulburn valley region of modern day northern Victoria. This story tells of how the landscapes we know today were transformed and created through a journey of …

‘The Eagle, the Crow and the Bat’ is a rich cultural story shared by the Jaara Community about Jaara totems and teachings, and how the Jaara Country came to be. A rich cultural story about Jaara totems, the book explores why the Eagle is the Lord of the Highlands, how the …

In 1883 a large gathering of First Nations People gathered at the top of Doctor George Mountain, near Bega, on the NSW Far South Coast to perform a mens initiation specifically so that it could be recorded by one of the world's earliest anthropologists, Alfred William Howitt. …