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Yorro Yorro: Everything Standing Up Alive: Rock Art and Stories From the Australian Kimberley

David Mowaljarlai, Jutta Malnic

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WEST AUSTRALIANA / AUSTRALIAN ART
Aboriginal
In this collaboration, Aboriginal elder Mowaljarlai and photographer Jutta Malnic rekindle a story that reaches back 60000 years, constituting the oldest collective memory of humankind. This new edition includes a conversation about the famed Bradshaw rock paintings.
Also Titled:
Yorro Yorro : Aboriginal creation and the renewal of nature : rock paintings and stories from the Australian Kimberley
xviii, 233 p. : col. ill., maps ; 24 cm #061023
Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Kimberley — Antiquities
Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Kimberley — Religion
Astronomy — Western Australia — Kimberley
Rock paintings — Western Australia — Kimberley
Aboriginal Australians — Religion
Religions – Christianity – Missions
Religions – Christianity – Missionaries
Literature and stories – Poetry
Religion – Totemism
Stories and motifs – Flood
Sites – Dreaming tracks
Stories and motifs – Creation / Cosmology
Art – Rock art – Painting
Law – Indigenous
Stories and motifs – Snakes
Wunambal people (K22) (WA SD51-12)
Worrorra people (K17) (WA SD51-16)
Health – Infectious diseases – Leprosy
Kimberley (W.A.) — Antiquities
Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51, SE52)

Additional Information

AuthorDavid Mowaljarlai, Jutta Malnic
Number of pages233
PublisherMagabala Books, Broome
Year Published2001
Binding Type

French flaps, Softcover

Book Condition

FINE!

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