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Australian design - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of Craft ACT. There are a number of professions in Australia that contribute to a diverse design industry, including architects, interior designers, landscape architects, graphic designers, jewellers, industrial designers, fashion designers...

Australian Indigenous ceremony - Australia's Culture Portal

For example, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders these ceremonies bring together all aspects of their culture - song, dance, body decoration, sculpture and painting. Anny Nungarrayi (centre) with other Warlpiri women perform a traditional dance dur...

Indigenous peoples of the World - Australia's Culture Portal

UNESCO states that Indigenous populations number some 350 million individuals in more than 70 countries in the world, and that this represents more than 5000 languages and cultures. Today, many Indigenous peoples live on the fringes of society and are de...

Australian Indigenous tools and technology - Australia's Culture Portal

While tools varied by group and location, Aboriginal people all had implements such as knives, scrapers, axe-heads, spears, various vessels for eating and drinking, and digging sticks. Aboriginal people achieved two world firsts with stone technology. A...

Australian Indigenous cultural heritage - Australia's Culture Portal

It also contains links to sites that may use images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures are complex and diverse. In Australia, Indigenous communities keep their cultural heritage alive by passin...

Australian Indigenous art - Australia's Culture Portal

Bark Painting, Evans Collection, Northern Territory Library. Image courtesy of the Northern Territory Library and the National Library of Australia. Australian Indigenous art is the oldest ongoing tradition of art in the world. ...

Websites matching your query...

IAD Press   (more info)

IAD Press is Australia's national Indigenous publishing house. The purpose of the Press is to publish the work of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and illustrators, promote the many and varied voices of Indigenous Australia, and maintain

FrogandToad's Indigenous Australia   (more info)

FrogandToad's Indigenous Australia has been researched and written entirely by Indigenous people. Visit this site for information about Australian Indigenous culture, language, Dreamtime, festivals, social organisation and achievement.

Dhinawun Consultancy   (more info)

Primarily an educational consultancy has a major focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education. Cultural activities conducted by the consultancy include: Indigenous language; Aboriginal Writing and cross-cultural training for teachers. Find out

Aboriginal Languages of Australia   (more info)

The internet library for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. Part of the World Wide Web's Official Virtual Library project. The site offers over 130 resources for about 40 out of the more than 200 Indigenous Australian languages.

Awaba   (more info)

An electronic database and guide to the history, culture and language of the Indigenous peoples of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales.

Daki Budtcha Records   (more info)

Daki Budtcha is an Indigenous - owned recording and publishing company established to protect, promote and maintain the integrity of Indigenous Australian culture - songs, dances, stories, drama and other related art forms. Daki Budtcha continues to break

Yugambeh Museum   (more info)

Aims to conserve and promote the cultural heritage of the traditional Aboriginal people of the Yugambeh Language Region, an area which extends from the Logan River in the north and west to the Tweed River in the south, and eastwards across South Stradbrok

Institute for Aboriginal Development (IAD)   (more info)

IAD is an independent Aboriginal community-controlled language resource centre and adult education centre serving the Aboriginal community of Central Australia. The website gives information about IAD, language and culture, general information, courses av

Documents matching your query...

State of Indigenous Languages in Australia - 2001   (website Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts )

The Indigenous languages of Australia represent a great storehouse of knowledge and tradition about the environment and ancient culture of Australia, both for the Indigenous people themselves, and for all Australians. Key findings of the paper will be in...

Culture and Heritage: Indigenous Languages   (website Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts )

The knowledge that a culture has about the environment is best expressed by the language of that culture. This paper surveys the state of Australia's indigenous languages up to January 1995. The loss of indigenous languages goes together with the loss of...

AIATSIS - Indigenous Languages bibliography   (website Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) )

DESCRIPTION Introduction describing characteristics of Australian languages and relationship to kinship systems, address list of language centres. PUBLISH Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service , 1992 , xvi, 122 p. Canberra: Australian Insti...

AIATSIS - Indigenous Languages bibliography   (website Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) )

DESCRIPTION Introduction describing characteristics of Australian languages and relationship to kinship systems, address list of language centres. PUBLISH Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service , 1992 , xvi, 122 p. Canberra: Australian Insti...

National Museum of Australia - Indigenous Languages   (website National Museum of Australia (NMA) )

Australian English borrowed more than 400 words from some 80 Aboriginal languages. An Aboriginal person, usually from south eastern Australia. First recorded in 1834, Koori comes from the term for 'Aboriginal man or person' in the language of the Awabak...

National Museum of Australia - Indigenous Languages   (website National Museum of Australia (NMA) )

Australian English borrowed more than 400 words from some 80 Aboriginal languages. It comes from bang meaning 'dead', which was first recorded in 1841 in the Yagara Aboriginal language of the Brisbane region. The word found its way into nineteenth-centu...