The tension between sacred mysteries that must be shielded from outsiders and those that can be revealed animates an ...

Some years ago, I was hunkered down over a painting I'd just bought, popping the staples out of the stretcher bars in front of the gas station in Lajamanu, a dusty Aboriginal township smack in the ...

The collection includes a woomera, which is a stick used for throwing a spear. In Aboriginal art, all the symbols and imagery have a meaning. In this case, the bark painting shows the symbolism of ...

The Aboriginal artist says it's because he wasn't painting dots or concentric circles. Shane is a Dharug and Dharawal man who uses traditional visual language — the same symbols his ancestors ...

(Courtesy of Paul Taçon, Griffith University) The maliwawa image collected from the aboriginal Namunidjbuk estate in the Wellington Range of Australia depicts a macropod. (Courtesy of Paul Taçon, ...

Asia Society Museum presents Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala, the first major exhibition of Aboriginal Australian bark paintings to tour the United States.

Backed by 60,000 years of culture, experiences with First Nations communities across Australia are introducing visitors to ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This book is an investigation of the way the Aboriginal art phenomenon has been entangled with Australian society's negotiation of ...

Radiating from a big red dot, a series of concentric circles fanned above me. A bicycle wheel? A spider’s web? The eye of a ...

Smoking fish is as old as fishing itself. Some techniques, and of course equipment, have evolved since our ancestors first tied a line to a stick, but some universal truths remain as relevant as ever.

Oct. 18, 2024 — A new study has found that oceanographic connectivity (the movement and exchange of water between different parts of the ocean) is a key influence for fish abundance across the ...

calling for accountability of Aboriginal deaths in custody," says Russell-Cook. "If you come in and think you're going to see ...