Showing posts with label Aborigines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aborigines. Show all posts
The BUnyiP
In Dreamtime the Bunyip was a spirit, which inhabited river, lakes, swamps, and billabongs (former parts of rivers that were left behind when the course of the river was altered). To the Aborigines the Bunyip was a beast of many different shapes and sizes: some were covered in feathers others had scales like crocodiles.
The Bunyip was malevolent towards humans, devouring those who invadad its watery home.
Aboriginal oral traditional stories about the Bunyip, may reflect the memories of encounters between the aborigines and the Diprotodon, passed down through the centuries. The Diprotodon was a herbivore and the largest marsupial ever to have existed. It became extinct between fifteen and twenty thousand years ago.
The fiRrst Indigenous pErson to circumnAvigate Australia (with Lieutenant Matthew Flinders) in 1798
Portrait of Bungaree, a Native of New South Wales,with Fort Macquarie, Sydney Harbour in Background c.1826Painted around 1826 by Augustus Earle.
Flinders was the cartographer of the first whole map of Australiaand the first person to circumnavigate the continent and recommend the name ‘Australia’.NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA
An AnciEnt TecHnique: BArk Painting
For thousands of years, the Aboriginal
people of Australia have been painting
on bark to tell their stories.
Since the languages spoken by the
Aboriginal tribes were not written, painting
was an important means of communication.
The artists grind colored rock to form ochre paints
and use bark from eucalyptus trees for their canvas.
These traditions of bark painting survive in the
Yolngu people who live in Northern Australia.
A bark painting begins with the slash of a sharp axe.
Artists make cuts in the trunks of eucalyptus trees,
then strip away pieces of bark.
All loose external bark is scraped off the piece
and its surface is smoothed. Next, they heat
the bark to flatten it.
people of Australia have been painting
on bark to tell their stories.
Since the languages spoken by the
Aboriginal tribes were not written, painting
was an important means of communication.
The artists grind colored rock to form ochre paints
and use bark from eucalyptus trees for their canvas.
These traditions of bark painting survive in the
Yolngu people who live in Northern Australia.
A bark painting begins with the slash of a sharp axe.
Artists make cuts in the trunks of eucalyptus trees,
then strip away pieces of bark.
All loose external bark is scraped off the piece
and its surface is smoothed. Next, they heat
the bark to flatten it.
Finally, using brushes, twigs, their fingers and
natural pigments they adorn the paintings
with designs handed down by their ancestors.
Monterey Bay Aquarium
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