Aboriginal ritual dancing from Elcho Island and Yirrkala, north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Top End of the Northern Territory perform dances, with the women prominent among the men, carrying strips of material, with a song man, clapsticks and playing of the didgeridoo, at the …
Men from Barunga (formerly known as Bamyili) in the Katherine region of the Northern Territory of Australia perform a dance illustrating spearfishing, followed by a very skilful solo; they then take their leave. This was recorded in 1978 in Lajamanu with an old 8 mm film camera, …
When ceremony was a big part of everyones life. It was filmed and played out to the community through EVTV (Ernabella Video TV) the first and only pirate TV station. There was no internet, only ABC which was switched off to show ceremony on EVTV. This video is a shortened edit …
Men and women from Galiwin’ku (Elcho Island), off the northern coast of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory perform dances, accompanied by singing and playing of the didgeridoo, at the Barunga Festival, 2018.
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 …
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.
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 …
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