Ancestral Connections
Subtitle: Art and an Aboriginal System of Knowledge
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: March 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780226538662
Subjects: Art of indigenous peoples; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Sociology; Popular Culture - General; Art / Popular Culture; Bark painting, Yolngu; Murngin (Australian people); Philosophy, Aboriginal Austral; Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian; Rites and ceremonies; Symbolism in art
First sentence: In a temporary shade made of cloth and canvas covering a framework of sticks, two men sit painting the lid of a coffin.