Aboriginal paintings of the Wolfe Creek Crater : track of the rainbow serpent / Peggy Reeves Sanday.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanday, Peggy Reeves

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting, Aboriginal Australian--Australia--Western Desert (W.A.).

Painting, Aboriginal Australian.

Australia.

Cosmology in art.

Physical Description:

164 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, [2007]

Contents:

Introduction: Track of the Rainbow Serpent 15

1 Halls Creek and Crater Culture History 36

2 The Sugar Leaf Dreaming: Stan Brumby's Painting 58

3 The Star and the Serpent: Daisy Kungah's Painting 72

4 The Dingo, the Rainbow Serpent, and the Old Man 83

5 Piercing and Creation in the Crater Dreamtime 97

6 The Cosmic and Earthly Serpents: Milner Boxer's Paintings 109

7 Two Families Go to Red Rock and Kandimalal 118

8 Site Paths in Crater Country 140.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158) and index.

ISBN:

1931707952

9781931707954

OCLC:

79256840