Tag Archives: Australian Aborigine
The Dreaming and Dreamtime
Australian National Museum, Canberra, ACT, Australia The Dreaming and “Dreamtime” As I take a career and life journey’s “Walkabout” around Australia and Europe during the Summer of 2011, during my visit to the Australian National Museum I really for the … Continue reading
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Pukamani Poles
Pukamani Poles The Australian Aborigine “Tiwi” people of the Bathurst and Melville Islands of the Northern Territories have symbollic material cultural artifacts littering their landscape similar to the use of headstones or grave markings in Western culture. These are called … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Aborigine, beliefs, customs, grave markings, mortuary poles, mortuary rituals, Pukamani Poles, Tiwi
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