Etched in bone / produced by Martin Thomas, Béatrice Bijon ; written, directed and narrated by Martin Thomas ; co-directed by Béatrice Bijon.

Format:

Datafile

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Martin (Martin Edward), 1964- author, director, narrator, producer.

Contributor:

Nayinggul, Jacob, on-screen presenter.

Bijon, Béatrice, composer, producer, co-director.

Lane, James, editor.

Bijon, Eric, composer.

Bijon, Joseph, musician.

Hondo, Adis, director of photography.

Wombey, Scott, director of photography.

Red Lily Productions, production company.

Heritage Broadcasting Service.

Ronin Films, film distributor.

Australian Research Council, funder.

Screen Australia, funder.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, funder.

Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC), repository.

Australian National University. History Program.

Australian National University. North Australia Research Unit.

Heritage Broadcast Service.

Language:

Australian languages

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Antiquities.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians--Anthropometry--Australia--Arnhem Land (N.T.).

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Arnhem Land (N.T.)--Social life and customs.

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Arnhem Land (N.T.)--History.

Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of--Australia--Arnhem Land (N.T.)--History.

Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.

Prehistoric peoples--Australia--Arnhem Land (N.T.).

Prehistoric peoples.

Human remains (Archaeology)--Repatriation--Australia--Arnhem Land (N.T.).

Human remains (Archaeology).

Gunbalanya (N.T.).

Aboriginal Australians--Anthropometry.

Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs.

Northern Territory--Arnhem Land.

Northern Territory--Gunbalanya.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (73 minutes)) : sound, color

Place of Publication:

[Eugene, Oregon] : Heritage Broadcasting Service, [2018]

Canberra : Red Lily Productions, 2018.

Language Note:

In English and Kunuinjku with subtitles and optional closed captions.

System Details:

digital

Summary:

Jacob Nayinggul, an Aboriginal elder from Arnhem Land in northern Australia, knows that bones of his ancestors were stolen by scientists in 1948. For sixty years, they were held by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., as part of a large collection on human anatomy. When, after years of debate, the Smithsonian finally agrees to repatriate the bones, Jacob Nayinggul creates a new form of ceremony. Wrapped in paperbark, the stolen bones-and with them the ancestors' spirits-are welcomed home and put to sleep in the land where those ancestors were born.

Participant:

Presenter: Jacob Nayinggul.

Credits:

Produced by Martin Thomas, Béatrice Bijon ; written, directed, narrated by Martin Thomas ; co-director Béatrice Bijon ; cinematography, Adis Hondo, Scott Wombey ; editor, colourist, James Lane ; original music, Eric Bijon ; original music performed by Eric Bijon, Joseph Bijon.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed on October 3, 2024).

OCLC:

1158390335

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.