Yurntumu-wardingki juju-ngaliya-kurlangu yawulyu: Warlpiri women's songs from Yuendumu.
This series consists of four short films in which Warlpiri women sing, dance and tell the stories of different ancestral beings who travel across Warlpiri country. Each part contains …
Boys from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns in north Queensland, Australia, perform traditional dances from Mer (Murray Island) in the eastern Torres Strait Islands, at the Townsville Cultural Fest in 2010. They are accompanied by drumming and singing.
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 …
Scenes during the Rodeo in 1978 at Seven mile in Lajamanu, a Warlpiri Aboriginal community about 550 kilometres south west of Katherine on the edge of the Tanami Desert. There is horse and bull riding, "catch the greasy pig" for the kids and a school food stall. This was recorded …
Men and women from Wadeye (Port Keats) in the Northern Territory sing and perform dances associated with fire, sunrise and the land; at the Barunga Festival, 2018.
Djarragun College students from the Torres Strait islands perform a dance from Badu Island, in the Central Western Torres Strait, during the Townsville Cultural Fest. The song is called “Gumi Rangadh”.
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.
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