Research Catalog
Paint-up
- Title
- Paint-up / Amanda Ahern and the Mornington Island Elders.
- Author
- Ahern, Amanda.
- Publication
- St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press ; Portland, Or. : Distributed in the USA and Canada by International Specialized Book Services, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | GN667.Q4 A44 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Mornington Island Elders.
- Description
- viii, 104 pages : color illustrations, color portraits; 21 x 29 cm
- Summary
- This book was inspired by the body paint worn by the Mornington Island dancers - Each dancer has a particular paint-up design which is of immense cultural significance - Previously, knowledge of these designs was transferrred orally, but with changing times, the elders realised that to put the designs in a book could be their gift to the younger generation - This book is the result.
- Subject
- Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Mornington Island (Qld.) > Social life and customs
- Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Mornington Island (Qld.) > Folklore
- Body painting > Australia > Mornington Island (Qld.)
- Art - Body art
- Stories and motifs - Rainbow serpent
- Stories and motifs - Birds
- Stories and motifs - Dingoes / dogs
- Stories and motifs - Moon
- Stories and motifs - Sharks
- Stories and motifs - Barramundi
- Stories and motifs - Fish
- Stories and motifs - Dugongs
- Stories and motifs - Kangaroos / Wallabies
- Stories and motifs - Stars
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems
- Religion - Totemism
- Stories and motifs
- Aboriginal Australians
- Aboriginal Australians > Social life and customs
- Body painting
- Manners and customs
- Legende
- Körperbemalung
- Mornington Island (Qld.) > Social life and customs
- Mornington Island (Qld Gulf Wellesley Islands SE54-01)
- Queensland > Mornington Island
- Mornington Island Queensland
- Aborigines
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Folklore
- Folklore.
- Fiction.
- Romans.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 28).
- Contents
- Cultural heritage -- What is a totem? -- Skin groups -- Boundaries -- Totem designs -- The first people of Mornington Island -- Thuwathu -- the Rainbow Serpent -- Kakawuny -- Boney-winged seagull -- Ngarembee -- Dingo -- Gidegal bana thuwathu -- Moon and Rainbow Serpent -- Wurruku -- the Shark -- Wulma -- Hammerhead shark -- Thanbe -- Shovel-nose shark -- Lamenburren -- Tiger shark -- Balibal -- Spotted stingray -- Milmajah -- Barramundi -- Gunjin -- Wallaby -- Jakiriijarr -- Sea hawk -- The two fat boys -- Kamba -- Rock cod -- Kurruuduwa -- Little red-legged devils -- Gurrbudjee -- Brown hawk -- Balmud -- Death sentence -- Burrtunantha -- Brolga -- Dunkumudin -- Sleepy old turtle -- Dibirdi -- Rock cod -- Kendabal -- Dugong -- Women's paint-up -- Kathaku -- Redbill -- Wunda -- Rain -- Ngarijan -- Morning star.
- ISBN
- 0702232696
- 9780702232695
- LCCN
- 2002491236
- OCLC
- ocm51554022
- 51554022
- SCSB-1318983
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library