Culture
Aboriginal culture has an extensive history, dating back 50,000 years. There are many important elements to Aboriginal culture. Which includes artwork, Dreamtime stories and traditional ceremonies. At AAIA our aim is to educate about these traditions, and help answer any questions you may have. We have many articles about Aboriginal culture, and we have many more to publish. Explore and enjoy, and if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Aboriginal Culture Information
Bark Painting
Bark Painting Creating a Bark painting is an intricate process, and has many stages. Here we explain the process from start to finish. The Bark used for...
Basket Weaving
Basket Weaving There is a long tradition of basket weaving amongst women from Arnhem land. The material used to make baskets come from plants. These...
Aboriginal Art
Aboriginal Art Indigenous Australians have been creating Aboriginal art for tens of thousands of years. In the central desert areas of Australia the...
Aboriginal Artefact Coolamon
Aboriginal Artefact Coolamon Artwork and artefacts are how Aboriginal people pass on their knowledge and culture. One of those is the Aboriginal artefact...
Tiwi Bird Carvings
Tiwi Bird Carvings Aboriginal artists create Tiwi bird carvings using hardwood, decorated with natural earth pigments. Referred to as Tokampini. They are...
Hunting Boomerang
Hunting Boomerang The Aboriginal artefact Hunting Boomerang is as interesting as the people it served. It's uses are wide and varied, and to the...
Tiwi Spears
Tiwi Spears Tiwi Spears are a unique artefact to the Tiwi. Only two islands are known to produce the spears. These include Bathurst and Melville Islands....
Hollow Log Ceremony
Hollow Log Ceremony Firstly the hollow log ceremony is a tradition that started during the Dreamtime and it relates to the burial procedures of those...
Stories
Mosquito Dreaming
The first mosquito was originally a man living near the Mann River with his family, all of whom were swallowed by the Rainbow Serpent. Only he escaped by...
Bew-Bew the Giant of the Dreamtime
Bew-Bew the Giant of the Dreamtime lived in a mud and stick home adjacent to the mudflats of north Goulburn Island. He had built his house in the shape...
Milky Way Dreaming
The Jakamarra ancestors of the Warlpiri tribe have lived since the beginning of time at a place called Yirlkirdi in the western desert of Central...
Namarrkon : The Lightning Spirit
Images of Lightning Spirits can be found throughout Arnhem Land in caves and on rock surfaces. Some of these are sacred but can be viewed by outsiders,...
Ngalyod, the Rainbow Serpent
Aboriginal people believe that Ngalyod, the Rainbow Serpent, created many sacred sites in Arnhem Land, including a large billabong near the artist's camp...
Nimbauwah Rock
Towering into the sky and dominating the surrounding country, Nimbuwah is an outlier near the western Arnhem Land escarpment. Nimbuwah is a sacred site...
Old Dingo Man
It is only recently that details of the Tingari Ancestral Beings have been revealed to outsiders, and even then many secret and sacred song and dance...
Sacred Dilly Bag
In the Dreamtime an Ancestral Being called Yingana came from Macassar across the sea to the shores of Western Arnhem Land, bearing in her body many...
Sacred Wurrkadi Myth
In the Dreamtime a man called Djanggawul, guided by the Morning Star, set out in a canoe with his two women (the trio is collectively called the...
SPEAR STRAIGHTENING CEREMONY
In the Dreamtime a group of Pintubi men went out hunting. They made camp near the secret cave site of Mitukatjirri, south-east of Kintore in the Western...
The Dupun Ceremony
In the beginning of time magpie geese lived at a place called Gungimilawuy in central Arnhem Land. They left there to visit several other places, taking...
Ubar Ceremony
In the Dreamtime a man called Yirrwadbad took a young girl from a neighbouring camp as his wife, but she refused to sleep with him and ran home to her...
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