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 …
Men from Barunga (formerly known as Bamyili) in the Katherine region of the Northern Territory enter Lajamanu on the occasion of the Northern Territory achieving self-government on 1 July 1978; they go through the new police station and perform a dance, typical of southern Arnhem …
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 …
Torres Strait islander boys, students from Djarragun College, 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 far north of the Torres Strait; the song, “Kutau Gutha Thia”, …
The traditional Míddjarn ceremonial dance of the Ndjébbana people is carried out by men and boys in the school grounds at Maningrida Aboriginal community in the north of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is a serious ceremony, but also fun for the children …
Pintubi women perform a traditional dance in the school grounds in Walangurru or Kintore, an Aboriginal community 530 kilometres west of Alice Springs in Central Australia.
A special dance is performed in Lajamanu, a Warlpiri Aboriginal community about 550 kilometres south west of Katherine on the edge of the Tanami Desert. It is performed welcoming important visitors, during celebrations when the Northern Territory received self-government on 1 …
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