WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL

First Edition.

In Bell’s four decade friendship with Mowaljarlai, she had to confront the cultural assumptions that sculpted her way of seeing. The journey was life-changing.

Ngarinyin Lawman Bungal (David) Mowaljarlai, OAM (c.1925-1997) was an artist, philosopher and distinguished advocate for the land rights and culture of the Kimberley Wandjina peoples. Through personality and force of will he guided his people through complex colonial relationships and the momentous changes imposed upon them, including re-settlement hundreds of kilometres away from their Country to Mowanjum, near Derby, in the 1950s.

• 247 p. : col. ill., map ; 24 cm.
• Characters and country
• Story
• Law in nature
• Male rite of passage
• Urban tribalism.
• Bell, Hannah Rachel
• Winton, Tim, 1960-
• Mowaljarlai, David Banggal, 1925-1997
• Social values — Australia
• Cognition and culture — Australia
• Storytelling — Social aspects — Australia
• Aboriginal Australians — Social life and customs
• Ngarinyin / Ungarinyin people (K18) (WA SE52-01)
• Indigenous knowledge – World view
• Literature and stories – Story telling and story tellers
• Art
• Literature and stories – Non indigenous
• (Small scuff to back cover, otherwise Fine)
• #100124