Yorro Yorro: Everything Standing up Alive. Spirit of the Kimberley

WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL INDIGENOUS
Account of journeys with David Mowaljarlai to significant sites in the west Kimberley; includes associated mythology and religious knowledge – Wandjina, snake, celestial bodies, sun, weather, lightning, flood, clouds , insects, birds, kangaroo, sickness, culture heroes; stone arrangements; food preparation – kangaroo; mother -in-law relations; foundation of the law; creation beliefs and cosmology; origin of spirit children and conception; magical and healing powers of the banman (doctor/clever man) – cure of leprosy; after death beliefs and mortuary ritual; incorporation of christianity; autobiography of David Mowaljarlai – life on Kunmunya mission, recollections of J.R.B. Love, World War II; forms of dreams – Mowaljarlais visions – corpus Australis; world view; Appendix 1 – Features of a Wandjina; Appendix 2 – Waanangga, sugarbag; Appendix 3 – time periods – chronology; Appendix 4 – The body of Australia, corpus Australis; glossary of Aboriginal language.

• xviii, 226 p. ; 25 cm.

First Edition. #250523/020624

• Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Kimberley — Antiquities
• Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Kimberley — Religion
• Astronomy — Western Australia — Kimberley
• Rock paintings — Western Australia — Kimberley
• Aboriginal Australians — Religion
• Death – Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
• Stories and motifs – Sun
• Food – Insects
• Stories and motifs – Clouds
• Bardi language (K15) (WA SE 51-02)
• Sites – Stone arrangements
• Family – Mothers in law
• Wunambal people (K22) (WA SD51-12)
• Gathering – Honey
• Defence – World War II
• Psychology – Dreams and symbolism
• Art – Subjects – Wandjina
• Religion – After death beliefs
• Indigenous knowledge – World view
• Ngarinyin / Ungarinyin people (K18) (WA SE52-01)
• Stories and motifs – Creation / Cosmology
• Stories and motifs – Kangaroos / Wallabies
• Stories and motifs – Cultural heroes
• Stories and motifs – Thunder and lightning
• Wunambal language (K22) (WA SD51-12)
• Worrorra language (K17) (WA SD51-16)
• Bardi people (K15) (WA SE51-02)
• Stories and motifs – Fish
• Ngarinyin / Ungarinyin language (K18) (WA SE 52-01)
• Stories and motifs – Flood
• Magic and sorcery – Clever people
• Stories and motifs – Insects
• Stories and motifs – Birds
• Stories and motifs – Spirit children
• Sites – Dreaming tracks
• Stories and motifs – Devils, monsters, evil spirits, hairy men, bunyips
• Reproduction – Conception
• Stories and motifs – Water sources
• Health – Treatments – Traditional – Clever people
• Stories and motifs – Snakes
• Religions – Christianity
• Health – Infectious diseases – Leprosy
• Indigenous knowledge – Health and medicine
• Worrorra people (K17) (WA SD51-16)
• Kimberley (W.A.) — Antiquities
• Kunmunya (WA West Kimberley SE51-07)
• Bandilngan / Windjana Gorge (WA West Kimberley SE51-08)
• East Kimberley area (WA SD52, SE52)