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Piercing the ground : Balgo women's image making and relationship to country
- Title
- Piercing the ground : Balgo women's image making and relationship to country / Christine Watson.
- Author
- Watson, Christine, 1951-
- Publication
- Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | GN667.W5 W379 2003 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 23 cm
- Summary
- Explores how Balgo women conceive of and produce images and how this embodies their religious beliefs and ceremonial activities in relation to country [from introduction].
- Subject
- Art, Aboriginal Australian > Australia > Balgo Hill Region (W.A.)
- Painting, Aboriginal Australian > Australia > Balgo Hill Region (W.A.)
- Women, Aboriginal Australian > Australia > Balgo Hill Region (W.A.)
- Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Balgo Hill Region (W.A.) > Rites and ceremonies
- Kukatja people (A68) (WA SF52-02)
- Ngardi > Bunara people (A69) (WA SE52-14)
- Art > Sand and ground design
- Art > Painting
- Ceremonies > Women
- Stories and motifs > Ancestor spirits
- Dance > Ceremonial
- Body > Decoration
- Culture > Relationship to land
- Music > Vocal > Clan songs
- Art > Artists > Women
- Art > Art motifs
- Sites > Dreaming tracks
- Aboriginal Australians > Rites and ceremonies
- Art, Aboriginal Australian
- Painting, Aboriginal Australian
- Women, Aboriginal Australian
- Iwi taketake
- Balgo > Wirrimanu (Central WA Tanami Desert SF52-02)
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 382-392.
- Contents
- 1. Glimpses of Balgo -- 2. Unravelling Layers of Being and Thought -- 3. Touching the Ground: Public Sand Drawing -- 4. Contemporary Painting: Practice and History 1979-2001 -- 5. Touching and the Structures of Ceremony -- 6. Touching the Ancestors: the Nakarra Nakarra Dreaming Track -- 7. Dialogue and Transformation: Paintings of the Nakarra Nakarra Dreaming Track -- 8. Becoming the Dreaming -- App. Nakarra Nakarra Song Cycle.
- ISBN
- 192073130X
- 9781920731304
- LCCN
- 2003374245
- OCLC
- ocm53110832
- 53110832
- SCSB-1338878
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library