Australian Aboriginal bark paintings and their mythological interpretation
Subtitle: Volume 1. : Eastern Arnhem Land
By: [by] Helen M. Groger-Wurm
Series: Australian Aboriginal studies -- no. 30; Social anthropology series -- no. 5
Publisher: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Canberra
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians; Religion and mythology; Art; Religion; Mythology
Notes: Bibliography: p.138-139.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Historical records of paintings on bark ; Painting on bark ; The purpose, function and regional art styles of bark paintings ; Eastern Arnhem Land and its people; title: Sacred art paintings of the Dua moiety. The Djanggawul ; The Wagilag Sisters ; Woijal, the wild honey ancestral being ; The Wongar shark, Buldmandji ; the Wongar mosquito ; The Thunderman ; The Bremer Island Turtle Hunter; title: Sacred bark paintings of the Jiridja moiety. The ancestral beings, Barama and Laindjung ; The gathering of the Wongar beings in the Plain Country at Arnhem Bay ; The formation of clouds ; The Wongar dogs ; The spirit woman, Wuradilagu; title: Secular bark paintings. Procuring of food ; Death and mortuary rites ; Illustration of a story or myth ; Illustration of an actual incident.