Title: Piercing the ground :
Authors: Watson, Christine,
Date: 2003
Publisher: Fremantle Arts Centre Press,
Physical description: 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: G
Contents: Glimpses of Balgo -- Unravelling Layers of Being and Thought -- Touching the Ground: Public Sand Drawing -- Contemporary Painting: Practice and History 1979-2001 -- Touching and the Structures of Ceremony -- Touching the Ancestors: the Nakarra Nakarra Dreaming Track -- Dialogue and Transformation: Paintings of the Nakarra Nakarra Dreaming Track -- Becoming the Dreaming -- Nakarra Nakarra Song Cycle.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (M.A.)--Australian National University, 1996. Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Balgo Hill (W.A.)--Rites and ceremonies.; Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Balgo Hill Region (W.A.)--Rites and ceremonies.; Acrylic painting--Australia--Balgo Hill (W.A.).; Art, Aboriginal Australian--Australia--Balgo Hill Region (W.A.); Painting, Aboriginal Australian--Australia--Balgo Hill (W.A.); Painting, Aboriginal Australian--Australia--Balgo Hill Region (W.A.); Women, Aboriginal Australian--Australia--Balgo Hill (W.A.).; Women, Aboriginal Australian--Australia--Balgo Hill Region (W.A.)