Sunday, August 23, 2009

A little touch on the Aboriginal's Way of Life

  • Live with nature, sentitive to surrounding and landscape, record events and maps through The Dreaming.
  • Built homes to be as open as possible, connect to the nature in many ways.
  • Ground and landscape are sacred to the aboriginals. Avoid destruction and disturbance to the ground-elevated and light structures-Glenn Murcutt-Touch the Earth Lightly.
  • Keep warm with fire, outdoor sleeping during hot days-adaptibility.
  • Barks were used to build huts for centuries old. Currently with corrugated iron, regarded by the aboriginals as man-made bark.
  • Obtain water from waterholes and still doing so in some rural areas.

And a little touch on the Art and Belief of the Kimberley region:
  • Wandjina Figure
  • Bradshaw figure-stickman
  • Records of dreaming through strokes of brush-circle
  • Painting usually have desert and waterhole as the focus or landscape-importance of desert and waterhole.
  • Rainbow serpent-holy symbolic figure

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