A humorous corroboree dance where a man is introduced to smoking cigarettes with unpleasant results; by men from Barunga (formerly known as Bamyili) in the Katherine region of the Northern Territory. This was recorded in 1978 in Lajamanu with an old 8 mm film camera, so the …
Warlpiri women from Yuendumu, a Central Australian Aboriginal community almost 300 kilometres north west of Alice Springs, perform a traditional dance accompanied by singing and clapsticks; at the Barunga Festival, 2018.
Two young men from Mowanjum (an Aboriginal community near Derby, Western Australia) perform a traditional hunting dance with spears and spear thrower, accompanied by a song man with clap sticks at the Barunga Festival, 2018.
Hilda Nambula from Wilora makes music sticks/clapsticks and talks about the tools she uses.
This video was made as part of Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi's Culture Program.
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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 …
Aboriginal ritual dancing from Elcho Island and Yirrkala, north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Top End of the Northern Territory perform dances, with the women prominent among the men, carrying strips of material, with a song man, clapsticks and playing of the didgeridoo, at the …
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 …
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