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Title Yiwarra kuju : the Canning Stock Route / National Museum of Australia
Published Canberra : National Museum of Australia Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 231 pages) : color illustrations, map, portraits
Contents pt. 1: The essays. The story behind the Canning Stock Route Project/ Carly Davenport -- Listening to country: the inseparable links between family and Dreaming on the "Cannin Stock Road"/ Monique la Fontaine -- Drawing a line in the sand: the Canning Stock Route and contemporary art/ John Carty -- Of mining and meat: the story of the Canning Stock Route -- pt. 2: The collection -- pt. 3: The artists -- pt. 4: Contributors
Summary The Aboriginal people of Australias Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining and pastoral industries led to the surveying of a track along which cattle could be driven from Kimberley stations to markets in the south
Notes Art centres represented in the collection: Birriliburu Artists; Kayili Artists; Mangkaja Arts; Martumili Artists; Ngurra Artists; Papunya Tula Artists; Paruku Indigenous Protected Area; Warlayirti Artists; Yulparija Artists
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Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Canning Stock Route (W.A.) -- Exhibitions
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Canning Stock Route (W.A.) -- Social life and customs -- Exhibitions
Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Exhibitions
Art -- Exhibitions.
Art -- Artists.
History -- Biographies -- Indigenous.
Sites -- Dreaming tracks.
Culture -- Relationship to land.
Stories and motifs -- Seven Sisters.
Religion -- Dreaming.
Stories and motifs -- Cultural heroes.
Stories and motifs -- Devils, monsters, evil spirits, hairy men, bunyips.
Stories and motifs -- Rainbow serpent.
Stories and motifs -- Kangaroos -- Wallabies.
Stories and motifs -- Water sources.
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
Art, Aboriginal Australian
Canning Stock Route (W.A.) -- Exhibitions
Canning Stock Route (WA SF51, SG51)
Kumpupirntily -- Lake Disappointment (Little Sandy Desert WA SF51-14)
Western Australia
Western Australia -- Canning Stock Route
Genre/Form exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Form Electronic book
Author National Museum of Australia.
ISBN 9781921953095
1921953098