Yalangbara: art of the Djang'kawu

Details:

Title

Creator

Marika, Laklak; Marika, Banduk 1954-; Malgorzewicz, Anna; Marika, Mawalan 1; Isaacs, Jennifer; Bagshaw, Geoffrey; Morphy, Howard; Stanton, John E; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

Editor

Marika, Banduk; West, Margie

Collection

E-Publications; E-Books; PublicationNT

Date

2008

Description

Yalangbara' is the first Indigenous art publication to focus upon one significant ancestral site. It has been produced on behalf of members of the Rirratjingu clan to celebrate Yalangbara (Port Bradshaw), the landing site of the Djang'kawu ancestors; the law-givers and progenitors of the people throughout north-east Arnhem Land. Their creative activities are depicted by three generations of talented Marika artists, including Mawalan 1, Mathaman, Milirrpum, Roy, Wandjuk, Banduk, Dhuwarrwarr, Mawalan 2, Jimmy Barrmula and Wanyubi Marika. The accompanying text examines aspects of Yolngu (Aboriginal) aesthetics and material culture, history, myth, land ownership and copyright to show the complex interrelationship of these themes in Yolngu life. Margie West AM holds the honorary position of Emeritus Curator of Aboriginal Art at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. She is an anthropologist with over thirty years of curatorial experience in Indigenous art. Since 1972 she has curated over forty semi-permanent and touring Aboriginal art exhibitions and has published extensively on Aboriginal art. Some of the recent publications she has edited include 'Transitions' (2000), 'Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award: Celebrating 20 years' (2004), 'ReCoil, Change and Exchange in Coiled Fibre Art' (2007), she was also co-editor with Hetti Perkins on the 'One Sun One Moon' publication (2006).

Notes

produced in partnership with Banduk Marika and other members of the Rirratjingu clan, north-east Arnhem Land; Indigenous people are respectfully advised that names and images of deceased people appear in the following pages. These have been reproduced with the consent of appropriate family members.

Table of contents

ntroduction/? Anna Malgorzewicz -- Journey of the Djang'kawu/? Mawalan 1 Marika -- The Marika family: guardians of Yalangbara, descendants of the Djang'kawu/? Jennifer Isaacs -- The physical and cultural dimensions of the Yalangbara area/? Geoffrey Bagshaw -- Yalangbara: the paintings/? Howard Morphy --Singing the land: the crayon drawings on brown paper collected by Ronald M and Catherine H Berndt/? John E. Stanton -- The sanctity of ordinary objects: material items of the Djang'kawu/? Margie West -- The counterfeit case/? Margie West -- Artist biographies

Language

English

Subject

1905 - Visual Arts and Crafts; 1601 - Anthropology; Indigenous; Art; Northern Australia; Art, Aboriginal Australian; Rirratjingu (Aboriginal people)--Northern Territory--Yirrkala

Publisher name

Charles Darwin University Press (CDU Press)

Place of publication

Darwin

Format

206 pages : colour illustrations, portraits, map ; 28 cm.

File type

application/pdf

ISBN

9780980384673; 980384672

Use

License

https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2019C00042

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/816699

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