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.
Young boys and men of the White Cockatoo dance group from Barunga and Beswick (Wugularr) in the Northern Territory enter the corroboree ground and go around it and then perform traditional dance on the dusty ground, to the accompaniment of singing and playing of the didgeridoo …
Two men of the Yirritja moiety perform the "Salt water dance", leaping past one another, representing waves meeting and crashing; the dancers constantly leap up and down, representing a choppy sea. The women dance along the side, their hands held horizontally. The men then run …
Young boys from Borroloola perform the “Aeroplane Dance”, about a Second World War event when an American bomber came down near there and a crew member was rescued by local Aborigines.
The Tiwi Aboriginal people of Bathurst Island remember the bombing of Darwin on 19 February 1942 with a corroboree. They apply their face paint and chant the events in Tiwi; the men dance, their arms outstretched, representing the planes; the women sit and depict looking through …
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
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 …
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