Title Yiwarra kuju : the Canning Stock Route / National Museum of Australia

Edition First edition Published Canberra : National Museum of Australia Press, 2010

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Description xxiv, 231 pages : color illustrations map, portraits ; 29 cm 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 Analysis ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS ART PAINTINGS Notes "Yiwarra Kuju : The Canning Stock Route, an exhibition at the National Museum of Australia, 30 July - 26 January 2010"--T.p. verso Includes index Subject National Museum of Australia -- Exhibitions. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Canning Stock Route (W.A.) -- Exhibitions. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Canning Stock Route (W.A.) -- Social life and customs -- Exhibitions. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Canning Stock Route -- Exhibitions Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Canning Stock Route -- Social life and customs -- Exhibitions Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Exhibitions. Community arts projects -- Australia -- Canning Stock Route (W.A.) Stock routes -- Western Australia -- Exhibitions SUBJECT Canning Stock Route (W.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019627 -- Exhibitions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001275 Canning Stock Route (W.A.), in art Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs. Author Carty, John. Davenport, Carly La Fontaine, Monique. National Museum of Australia. LC no. 2010534327 ISBN 9781876944780 (paperback)

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