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).
Men and boys from Mowanjum (an Aboriginal community near Derby, Western Australia) perform a traditional dance mimicking the emu, the large flightless bird, when feeding from the ground, accompanied by a song man with clap sticks at the Barunga Festival, 2018.
Men and boys from Injinoo, a community at the top of Cape York in Far North Queensland, Australia, perform traditional dances during the Giringun Festival in Cardwell. They perform the Scrub Turkey Dance (making a nest to lay her eggs); after that they march off.
Aboriginal song and dancing from Elcho Island and Yirrkala, north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Top End of the Northern Territory perform dances, the women and men, carrying strips of material, with a song man, clapsticks and playing of the didgeridoo, at the Barunga Festival, 2018.
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.
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