Description: It was formerly common but is now rare to uncommon and patchily distributed over a range that has become markedly reduced. Usually seen in pairs or small flocks, seldom large flocks (up to 200). It has declined due to the destruction of forests and woodlands, also competition for nest hollows with native and exotic species, and the impact of fire. There are three subspecies of Red-tailed Black Cockatoo in Western Australia. Only the south-western population naso is listed as Vulnerable.
Description: Acrylic on canvas, stretched and ready to hang. Signed certificate of authenticity. Acrylic Paint on canvas, ready to hang. Signed with a certificate of authenticity. In the Dreamtime all earth lay sleeping. Nothing moved. Nothing grew. One day the Rainbow Serpent awoke from her slumber and came out from under the ground. She travelled far and wide and eventually grew tired and curled up and slept. She left marks of her sleeping body and her winding tracks. Then she returned to the place where she had first appeared, and called to the frogs, “Come out!” The frogs came out slow because their bellies were heavy with water, which they had stored in their sleep. The Rainbow serpent tickled their stomachs and when the frogs laughed, wate...
Description: The name Warrego is an Australian Aboriginal word from the Bidyara language believed to mean "bad" and is also an Aboriginal term meaning "river of sand". Warrego means 'river of sand' in the Aboriginal language and was designed by the local Indigenous Bidjara people. The pathway is called ‘Wadyanana’ meaning ‘I’ll be walking around somewhere else when he comes.’
Description: A First Nations Voice to Parliament. The voice to parliament would be a representative body giving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders a say in law and policy affecting them. Enshrined in the constitution, it would become an institution of lasting significance for First Nations and all Australians.
Description: Bush Medicine Leaves is a well-documented dreaming story painted by the women artists of Utopia in Central Australia. The flowing motion and undulating rhythm of the subject matter reflect the importance of bush medicine leaves to traditional Aboriginal culture. The bush medicine leaves are collected by the women and are highly prized for their restorative powers as part of traditional health practices. Bush medicine leaves derive from a particular native shrub that grows abundantly in the desert regions of Utopia, northeast of Alice Springs. During the life of the plant, the leaves change colour and exhibit different medicinal properties. When the leaves of the shrub are green they are gathered by the women and ground up using a stone. ...
Description: Bush Medicine Leaves is a well-documented dreaming story painted by the women artists of Utopia in Central Australia. The flowing motion and undulating rhythm of the subject matter reflect the importance of bush medicine leaves to traditional Aboriginal culture. The bush medicine leaves are collected by the women and are highly prized for their restorative powers as part of traditional health practices. Bush medicine leaves derive from a particular native shrub that grows abundantly in the desert regions of Utopia, north-east of Alice Springs. During the life of the plant, the leaves change colour and exhibit different medicinal properties. When the leaves of the shrub are green they are gathered by the women and ground up using a sto...
Description: Bush Medicine Leaves is a well-documented dreaming story painted by the women artists of Utopia in Central Australia. The flowing motion and undulating rhythm of the subject matter reflect the importance of bush medicine leaves to traditional Aboriginal culture. The bush medicine leaves are collected by the women and are highly prized for their restorative powers as part of traditional health practices. Bush medicine leaves derive from a particular native shrub that grows abundantly in the desert regions of Utopia, north-east of Alice Springs. During the life of the plant, the leaves change colour and exhibit different medicinal properties. When the leaves of the shrub are green they are gathered by the women and ground up using a stone....
Description: Acrylic on canvas, stretched and ready to hang. Signed certificate of authenticity. Kunja lands where I roamed as a child Where the red Volcanic Dirt meets with the Yellow Wattle Cunnamulla ..... Big Waterhole Eulo ......Montville Of The Outback Augathella...... Camp on the waterhole
Description: In Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, the Rainbow Serpent is associated with rituals of abundance and propagation in the natural world, and of fertility and well-being in human society. It has the power over life and death, bringing conception spirits to the water holes, but also punishing those who break traditional laws. Spirit of the Waterholes For Aboriginal people of the desert, the Rainbow Serpent lives in the waterholes of their country, and travels between them, either under the ground or in the storm clouds when a rainstorm is moving. His presence brings on the rains and if he is offended he can prevent the rains and cause drought or inundations that cause people to perish.
Description: Acrylic Paint on canvas, stretched and ready to hang. Signed on the back. Among the stories from the Dreamtime of the Aboriginal People in many parts of Australia are a reference to giant animals that in many cases can be traced to fossils of animals that formed the megafauna of Australia. There are also mentions in some stories of what appears to be a time before much of the country reached the arid state it is now in.
Description: Cunnamulla is part of the Paroo Shire and is located on the Warrego River in far west Queensland. The Paroo Shire also includes the townships of Eulo, Wyandra, and Yowah. The word ‘Cunnamulla’ means a long stretch of water’ or ‘big waterhole’ in the language of the Kunja (Koun-yah) people[1]. Historical research indicates that the Kunja people originally occupied this region prior to first contact
Description: Gecko was very brave and courageous, he believed in himself strongly. Another Aboriginal belief from the Northern Territory is that a giant gecko brings the thunderstorms and monsoon rains of the wet season
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Description: The emu in the sky. At the Elvina Engraving Site in the Kuring-Gai Chase National Park, Sydney, is an engraving of the emu in the sky, a constellation recognized by many Aboriginal groups across Australia, that is formed of dark clouds in the Milky Way, rather than the stars as in most constellations. When the constellation is above the carving in the rock the local Aboriginal People knew it was time to collect emu eggs. The head of the emu is the Coal Sack, the dark area near the Southern Cross, its neck passing through the stars called the pointers and the body is in the constellation of Scorpio. The male emu is of significance to the Aboriginal elders because like the male emu, that hatches its mate's eggs and the cares for the yo...
Description: Before there were animals there was only people. There was a man named Budgial, a man named Gunual, and they were both in love with a girl named Gugu. The turtle man, Budgial, his totem represented common sense and love. Because he loved Gugu, he brought her flowers and sweet fruits; he watched the sun go down with her, he listened to her talk and he held her.
Description: The Goanna is a large lizard which lives in dry climates in Australia. It acquired its name because of its resemblance to the iguana. The Aboriginal word for goanna is Wardapi in the Warlpiri language and Perente in the Pintupi language. In the Aboriginal Art Regions of Central Australia, the Goanna is a totemic spirit and Australian Aboriginal artists paint their Goanna Dreaming to honour their ancestral spirit.
Description: Many years ago a man lived at a small creek that runs into the Daly River. He was an excellent fisherman, admired by all in his tribe as he could always be relied upon to bring food into the camp from his fishing trips. He would provide not only for his family with his daily catch but for other tribes as well. All the women admired his hunting skills. His legendary status grew over time and while the admiration remained, jealousies also started to surface. Some men became concerned that their wives held the fisherman in far too high esteem. One night he went out fishing and was following by some jealous men from the tribe, who had devised a plan to kill him. While he was fishing, the men crept up behind the man and threw his own fishin...
Description: Legend has it that there was a time in blackfellow land when the night came down like a black cloud and veiled the world in darkness letting neither moon nor stars be seen. But as Bohra liked to feed at night, he objected to this darkness. Being a great wirinun, he put an end to it by just rolling the darkness back as if it had been a rug and let it rest on the edge of the world while the stars and moon shone out. Bohra was very pleased with himself as he could now see to feed during the night and he could go about as he pleased on his four legs, for in those days Bohra went on all fours like a dog. One night as he was feeding, Bohra saw a number of fires ahead and heard sounds of many voices singing. As he got closer, he saw strangely ...
Description: For Aboriginal people, "country" does not just mean the creeks, rock outcrops, hills and waterholes. "Country includes all living things. It incorporates people, plants and animals. It embraces the seasons, stories and creation spirits. "country" is both a place of belonging and a way of believing. Through our travels we have sustained and celebrated our knowledge of our "country". It is an experience vividly expressed in our traditional songs, stories, dance and art. We are proud to share many aspects of our land, art and culture with visitors. Indeed there has never been a better time to make your own journey to our "country". From desert dunes to tropical shores, there are astonishing contrasts in the landscape. Aboriginal cultu...
Description: Murtoa Dreaming The Gecko (Murtoa) is a small adaptable lizard, with the ability to camouflage itself to suit its varying surroundings. Should a Gecko lose its tail in a fight or an attack, it can regrow its tail. Although it is only a small lizard, the Gecko can survive in very harsh conditions. All these attributes contribute to the Geckos survival. Murtoa (Gecko) Dreaming represents adaptability, regeneration, strength, and survival. Its lesson to us is to make the best of a situation. In order to survive, one needs to be able to adapt, regenerate strength and go on, like the Gecko.
Description: Cunnamulla Aboriginal Culture – Tribes The Cunnamulla Aboriginal culture includes five different tribes that are made up of Kunja people, who are the traditional owners of the Cunnamulla area Kooma, Budjiti, Mardigan, and Kullilli people. The Kunja Aboriginal people are the descendants of Killamunda (including her children Margaret Turner (Granny McKellar), Annie/Nannie Widgell and Jack Brennan), Flora Maranoa, Maria Major (including her children Jack Oliffe, Ron Wyman, Walter Wyman and Lily Lynett) and Jimmy Nyngan. Kunja Aboriginal elders will perform the welcome to country ceremony at the start of Cully Fest on the Warrego. This location was chosen due to its significance to the Aboriginal culture within Cunnamulla as well as bein...
Description: The Indigenous voice of this country is over 65,000 plus years old. They are the first words spoken on this continent. Languages that passed down lore, culture, and knowledge for over millennia. They are precious to our nation. It’s that Indigenous voice that includes know-how, practices, skills, and innovations - found in a wide variety of contexts, such as agricultural, scientific, technical, ecological and medicinal fields, as well as biodiversity-related knowledge. They are words connecting us to country, an understanding of country and of a people who are the oldest continuing culture on the planet. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people want their voice to be heard. First Nations were excluded from the Constitutional c...
Description: In our culture Ceremonies and rituals take on many different forms. Some were very private and involved only people in that language group while others involved all people belonging to the language group, even children. Sometimes the creation of special and sacred objects of drawings in sand and/or earth (sand painting), the moulding and carving of spirit figures in clay or wood, the painting of bark, the making of specific body design were used in many ceremonies. Often the objects or drawings made were placed in a bora ring or near the site where the ceremony was to be held. That is the reason why we find many scarred trees marking the site where sacred ceremonies were once held or continue to be held Special and sacred songs and dance...
Description: Oola the lizard was tired of playing in the sun and decided to go practice throwing his boomerang. Galah came up and stood near watching the boomerangs come flying back for the kind of boomerangs Oola was throwing were bubberas. These were smaller and more curved then the others and returned to the thrower unlike Oola's other boomerangs. Oola was proud of having the gay Galah to watch his skill. In his pride he gave the bubbera an extra twist and threw it with all of his might. Whizzing through the air back it came, as it passed hitting Galah on top of her head taking both feathers and skin clean off. Oola was so frightened when he saw what he had done and noticed that blood was flowing from Galah's head, he glided away to hide under a...
Description: Back in the beginning, when Baiame, the sky spirit walked the earth, he moulded two men and a woman out of the red earth of the ridges and brought them to life. Before he continued on his way, Baiame showed them all the plants that they could eat to keep life. For some time they lived on such plants as had been shown by Baiame and then came a drought and the plants grew scarce. One day the 2nd man killed a kangaroo and he and the woman ate some of its flesh but the 1st man would not eat this meat although he was very hungry and weak. Annoyed at the 2nd man and woman for this, the 1st man walked away angrily towards the sunset. He went over sandhills and ridges until he reached a riverbank near the edge of a coolibah plain. After the ...
Description: A Welcome to Country is a protocol where Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Traditional Owners welcome others to the land of their ancestors. The Welcome to Country ceremony is carried out at significant events and formal functions involving people from other parts of the country or from overseas. This practice shows respect for the Traditional Owners and Elders of a particular area or region.
Description: Closely associated with the serpent of the earth the water dragons are healers, warriors, and peace gathering clans. The water dragon is said to bring peace and unity where only war was before. Powerful spirit guides with knowledge of mother earth secrets and the wisdom of the ancients in their blood. Water dragons visit during dream time when all is quiet in the mind and the body is no longer a restriction. Dragon will guide you to astral journeys of knowledge and self-growth, protecting your travels and improving your communication with the spirit world.
Description: Meehni', 'Wimlah' and Gunnedoo'. "THE THREE SISTERS " Long ago in the Blue Mountains there lived three little Aboriginal sisters. They were Meenhi, Wimlah and Gunnedoo, whose Witch Doctor father was called Tyawan. Only one creature was feared by all the Bunyip who lived in a deep hole. When Tyawan had to pass the hole, he would leave his daughters safely on the cliff behind a rocky wall. One day, waving goodbye to his daughters, he descended the cliff steps. On top of the cliff a big centipede suddenly appeared and frightened Meehni, who threw a stone at it. The stone rolled over the cliff and crashed into the valley. Birds, animals and fairies stopped till as the rocks behind the three sisters split open, leaving them on a thin led...
Description: Long ago back in the Dreamtime there was a very beautiful girl called Brolga. She was very young and the best dancer in the whole land as her dancing was so graceful and her movements so special. Now Brolga hadn't always been such a good dancer. When she was a very little girl she used to get up very early in the morning and creep out of the gunyah and onto the plains around her camp. Once there she would practice swooshing her arms like the Pelican, parading like the Emu and whirling like the wind. But Brolga didn't just do the old dances. She liked to make up new ones about the trees and the wind, dances about the Spirits and the animals. Soon 's dances became so good that other tribes would come from far away just to watch Brolga danc...
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