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 …

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. …

Blekbala Mujik (Kriol for "Blackfellow Music") was a very successful band of Aboriginal musicians, with founding member and leader Peter Miller. Hailing from Barunga, an Aboriginal community just south of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia, they combined pop, rock …

Hilda Nambula from Wilora makes music sticks/clapsticks and talks about the tools she uses. This video was made as part of Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi's Culture Program. Visit waltja.org.au to learn more You can buy slapsticks like the ones in the video from Waltja's Arts …

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.

Men and women from Elcho Island and Yirrkala, north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Top End of the Northern Territory perform dances, carrying strips of material, with a song man, clapsticks and playing of the didgeridoo, at the Barunga Festival, 2018.

An evening “Wungubal”, just for fun, in Numbulwar. A father dances with his small son. The singing, accompanied by clapsticks and didjeridu, is typical of eastern Arnhem Land.

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 …