Little Paintings, Big Stories: Gossip Songs of Western Arnhem Land

ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANA –

Drawn from the Berndt Museum Collection, this exhibition explores the inter-relationship. between the people, country and stories of Goulburn Island, Northern Territory. Djurrbilk stories use. human characters in the guise of animals. The stories are sometimes based on actual events that have. happened in the community, but the use of animals obscures the original characters and their actions. protecting their identity and saving embarrassment.

Occasional paper (Berndt Museum of Anthropology) ; no. 12. 1038-2364

• 104 pages : colour illustrations, chiefly colour maps, music ; 30 cm.
• Catalogue of an exhibition held at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, U.W.A., 29 June-14 December 2013.

• (AIATSIS) Subject:

  • Art – Painting – Bark
  • Music – Vocal – Clan songs
  • Art – Exhibitions
  • Maung / Mawng people (N64) (NT SC53-13)
  • Gunwinggu / Gunwinygu / Kunwinjku people (N65) (NT SD53-02)
  • Goulburn Islands (West Arnhem Land NT SC53-13)
  • Arnhem Land (NT)

  Subject:

  • Berndt Museum of Anthropology — Exhibitions
  • Art, Aboriginal Australian — Western Australia — Exhibitions
  • Anthropology — Western Australia — Periodicals
  • Arnhem Land (N.T.) — Songs and music — Exhibitions
  • Australian
  • Australia – Songs and music
  • Australian Aborigines – Goulburn Island Community
  • Australian Aborigines – Northern Territory – Arnhem Land – Music
  • Australian Aborigines – Northern Territory – Arnhem Land – Social life and customs
  • Australian Aborigines – Northern Territory – Arnhem Land – Bark paintings – Exhibitions
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  • #150925