Two men of the Yirritja moiety perform the "Salt water dance", leaping past one another, representing waves meeting and crashing; the dancers constantly leap up and down, representing a choppy sea. The women dance along the side, their hands held horizontally. The men then run …
Women from Lajamanu, an Aboriginal community about 550 kilometres south west of Katherine on the edge of the Tanami Desert perform an ancient dance while other women sing, on the occasion of the Northern Territory achieving self-government on 1 July 1978; they dance around a …
Men from Lajamanu, an Aboriginal community about 550 kilometres south west of Katherine on the edge of the Tanami Desert are painted up and perform "purlapa", men's corroboree, at dusk. This was recorded with an old 8 mm film camera, so the technical quality is poor.
Traditional dances from Galiwin'ku or Elcho Island, an Aboriginal community off the north coast of Arnhem Land, performed at the yearly cultural festival in Barunga, Northern Territory, Australia
Torres Strait islander boys, students from Djarragun College, march onto the stage during the Townsville Cultural Fest. They perform the “Paddle Dance” from Boigu Island (just south of Papua New Guinea), in the far north of the Torres Strait; the song, “Kutau Gutha Thia”, …
Warlpiri men sing a traditional “Yilpinyi” song cycle to be recorded with a tape recorder in Lajamanu, a Warlpiri Aboriginal community about 550 kilometres south west of Katherine on the edge of the Tanami Desert.
Yurntumu-wardingki juju-ngaliya-kurlangu yawulyu: Warlpiri women's songs from Yuendumu.
This series consists of four short films in which Warlpiri women sing, dance and tell the stories of different ancestral beings who travel across Warlpiri country. Each part contains …
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