Blekbala Mujik (Kriol for "Blackfellow Music") was a very successful band of Aboriginal musicians, with founding member and leader Peter Miller. Hailing from Barunga, an Aboriginal community just south of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia, they combined pop, rock …
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.
Young boys and men of the White Cockatoo dance group from Barunga and Beswick (Wugularr) in the Northern Territory dance at the Barunga Festival of 2018 to the song “Mimi - Wajbagada”, a song about the mythical Mimi spirit, accompanied by the didgeridoo (yidaki).
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.
A Welcome song and dance by young girls from Thurday Island, in the Torres Strait Islands, at the start of the Croc Festival, a festival with participants of indigenous schools in northern Queensland, held on Thursday Island in 2001.
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 …
The men of each of the two moiety groups (Yirritja and Dua) run around their respective "Jirawara" ceremonial forked poles; the leader of their moiety then climbs on the "Jirawara" and gives the Mardayin calls, naming the sacred places connected with the ceremony; the men …
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