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The Aboriginal women apply Awelye body paint designs to the upper body using a tapale (brush- like stick), before dancing their ceremony. Read More...

Aboriginal women dancing during an awelye ceremony. This dance followed the body painting and celebrates harvesting and gathering the food. Read More...

Famous Utopian Aboriginal Artist Gloria Petyarre gives a brief description of her use of Bush Medicine and allows us to view her bush-strokes as she paints. Read More...

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa talks briefly about his painting and dreaming the Tingari Cycle. Read More...

Aboriginal artist Ronnie Tjampitjinpa talks briefly about his painting Fire Dreaming. Read More...

Male and female ancestral figures played a major role in the Dreaming and were used as a guide to the partnerships between men and women. Aboriginal women shared an interdependent relationship with the men playing a dominant role in child rearing and food gathering and sharing the roles of healers, law makers, performers, painters and custodians of traditional ways. Women maintain their traditional knowledge through ceremony and more recently through their paintings. Read More...