Aboriginal girl students from Djarragun College near Cairns perform a traditional dance during the Girringun Festival in Cardwell. They perform, among others, the “Creation Dance”, depicting the creation of all animals and the gathering of traditional medicine to treat snake …
Young boys and men from Barunga and Beswick (Wugularr) in the Northern Territory dance on the corroboree ground at the Barunga Festival of 2018, raising plenty of dust; this is followed by a dance from the women; accompanied by song and the didgeridoo (yidaki).
This footage is of the Zugubal Dancers from Badu Island performing at Big Talk One Fire in 2013. Zugubal Dancers perform dances from Badu Island in the Torres Strait Islands.
Boys and girls from St. Therese's School (now called Murrapurtiyanuwu) on Bathurst Island in the far north of Australia learn traditional dancing during afternoons at school dedicated to Tiwi Aboriginal culture. This was filmed in 1987.
Men and boys from Mowanjum (an Aboriginal community near Derby, Western Australia) perform a traditional dance with masks and large emblems, totemic birds, accompanied by a song man with clap sticks at the Barunga Festival, 2018.
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