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Dance and body art / Pacific Rim-shots and David Tunnell in association with Knowledge Books & Software Multimedia ; produced and directed by David Tunnell, Brett Charles.
LIBRA VHS GN666 .D36 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dance--Anthropological aspects--Australia.
- Dance.
- Dance--Anthropological aspects.
- Body art.
- Australia.
- Body art--Australia.
- Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (approximately 20 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Brighton, Qld., Australia] : Knowledge Books & Software Multimedia [distributor], [1999]
- System Details:
- VHS - NTSC.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- NTSC
- Summary:
- Considers the meaning of dance and body-painting for the aboriginal peoples of Australia: dance as storytelling, indicating home, status, legends, occupations; body art as symbolic of the Dreamtime, or clan/individual totems, its color related to tribal location and legends.
- Credits:
- Camera, Brett Charles, David Tunnell; editor, Brett Charles; research, Dvid Tunnell; cultural consustant Greg Singh (Inibla Goobya)
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 54705051
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