Keeping the Wanjinas Fresh: Sam Woolagoodja and the Enduring Power of Lalai

WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL Indigenous Art

Story of Donny Woolagoodja, son of Sam Woolagoodja; learning the stories of the Wanjina and Lalai; shift from Kumunya Mission to Mawanjum; paintings as title to land; repainting at rock art sites; plates of Wanjina paintings by Donny Woolagoodja and other artists; includes photograph of ‘Wanjina Awakening Spirit’ designed by Donny Wollagoodja and Peter England for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, Sydney, 2000.

• 293 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 23 cm. Bibliographical references (p. 279-285) and index. #290524
• Woolagoodja, Sam
• Worora (Australian people)
• Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Kimberley
• Sport – Olympic Games
• Art – Painting
• Worrorra people (K17) (WA SD51-16)
• History – Biographies – Indigenous
• Stories and motifs – Wandjina
• Religions – Christianity – Missions
• Art – Rock art
• Stories and motifs – Ancestor spirits
• Settlement and contacts – Colonisation – 1851-
• Mowanjum (WA West Kimberley SE51-07)
• Kunmunya (WA West Kimberley SE51-07)
• (Name on prelim.)