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 …

Two men from Mowanjum (an Aboriginal community near Derby, Western Australia) wearing masks perform a traditional kangaroo hunting dance with spears and spear thrower, accompanied by a song man with clap sticks at the Barunga Festival, 2018.

Men and women, painted with red and yellow ochres, walk towards the seashore to the sound of clapsticks. Every few metres the men of each moiety, supported by their women, do their typical dances with ceremonial cries. Having arrived at the water's edge the men plunge in and …

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 …

Yajilarra Junba 2021

Tjukupati Iratjari, Yvonne Yibarti, Janie Miama tell a traditional story in language from Docker River. (Two Sisters)

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.

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, …