Dances at Aurukun, 1962 /

Dances at Aurukun, 1962 /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Acton, Australian Capital Territory : National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, 1964.
Description:1 online resource (31 min.)
Language:English
Series:Ethnographic video online, volume 3
Subject:
Wik-Mungkan (Australian people)
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Cape York Peninsula (Qld.) -- Dance.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Cape York Peninsula (Qld.) -- Rites and ceremonies.
Aboriginal Australians -- Rites and ceremonies.
Wik-Mungkan (Australian people)
Queensland -- Cape York Peninsula.
Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10316266
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Other authors / contributors:Dunlop, Ian, 1927-
Notes:Title from resource description page (viewed December 5, 2014).
Previously released as DVD.
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 3). Available via World Wide Web.
In English.
Summary:Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers should be aware that this content may contain images or names of people who have since passed away.
This film is a record of traditional Aboriginal dancing at Aurukun Mission on Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland. Filmed in 1962 for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, it showcases and preserves Wik ritual dances and ceremonies at a time when customary Aboriginal life was changing and adapting to Western culture.

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