#aboriginal art

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Aboriginal Dot Art by DOROTHY ROBINSON NAPANGARDI

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Aboriginal rock paintings of Wandjina in Western Australia, dating more than 4000 years ago, some, I've read, are as old as 50,000 years but I am no expert.

The Wandjina are cloud and rain spirits from Australian Aboriginal mythology

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Blak Douglas — Assimilate (synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 2018)

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Kohslaˀké·ne ohkwá·li̲

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Judith Nangala Crispin, Robyn 2024.

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Parametric Dreamtime Maps

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1700 years of fiber crafting

"The presence of a hooked piece of thick wire and a strip of red cloth—both of which are European objects—shows Aboriginal people were still using the Windmill Way site in the so-called "contact period" after 1873. This was the year explorer William Hann discovered gold on the Palmer River. About 20,000 miners flooded into the area over the following two decades. Direct radiocarbon dating of 13 of the strings shows the oldest pieces were made 1,700 years ago, and the most recent during the contact period. Dated fragments of charcoal from campfires at the site are even older, extending back 2,100 years."

Perfectly preserved rock art site reveals 1,700 years of Aboriginal string craft

Imagine you're in southeast Cape York Peninsula, heading north from the tiny town of Laura—population 133. You're in a dusty four-wheel driv

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