Account of the Ngarinyin traditions relating country, law and rock art; includes the Great Mother (Jillinya), and Wanjina traditions; interpretation of Bradshaw art; mythology and totemic associations of ancestral beings – origin stories, birds, praying mantis, plants, celestial bodies, sacred objects, crocodile, goanna, red kangaroo, lightning brothers; stone tool typology and manufacture; spear making; rock art painting technique; sites of significance – stone arrangements; relationship to land; burial; initiation – scarification.
335, [1] pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cm. #130722/100624
(Large oversize book, which may incur additional postage charges overseas or via Abebooks.)
Includes bibliographical references (page 336).
In English, French and German.
Includes Ngarinyin to english glossary.
Secret and sacred pathways of the Ngarinyin aboriginal people of Australia
Geheime und heilige Pfade der Ngarinyin, Aborigines in Australien
Chemins secrets et sacres des Ngarinyin, aborigenes d’Australie
Dulwan mamaa
Ngarinyin language K18 | Ngarinyin / Ungarinyin people (K18) (WA SE52-01) | Religion – Rites. | Sites – Sites of significance. | Art – Subjects – Gwion Gwion figures. | Art – Subjects – Wandjina. | Ngarinyin (Australian people) — Rites and ceremonies. | Art, Aboriginal Australian. | Rock paintings — Western Australia — Northwest district — Themes, motives. | Petroglyphs — Western Australia — Northwest district — Themes, motives. | Ngarinyin (Australian people) — Pictorial works. | Symbolism in art. | East Kimberley area (WA SD52, SE52) | West Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51) | Ashton map area (WA East Kimberley SD52-13) | Mount Elizabeth map area (East Kimberley WA SE52-01) | Charnley map area (WA West Kimberley SE51-04)