The Seven Sisters Dreaming Story

A man performs a dance associated with the brolga, a large water bird, on the street in Numbulwar, an Aboriginal community in East Arnhem Land, Australia. Men sing, accompanied by didjeridu and clapsticks and women are dancing on the side.

Torres Strait islander boys, students from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia, 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 …

Traditional dances from Galiwin'ku or Elcho Island, an Aboriginal community off the north coast of Arnhem Land, performed at the yearly cultural festival in Barunga, Northern Territory, Australia

Aboriginal children paint up and perform a "wungubal", corroboree dance on the beach in Numbulwar, a Nunggubuyu community on the east coast of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Men and women from Wadeye (Port Keats) in the Northern Territory sing and perform dances associated with fire, sunrise and the land; at the Barunga Festival, 2018.

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, …

Men and women from Elcho Island and Yirrkala, north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Top End of the Northern Territory perform fast dances, carrying woomera (spearthrowers), accompanied by singing, clapsticks and playing of the didgeridoo, at the Barunga Festival, 2018.