Aboriginal art

Heart of My People II by Andrew Williams

It is a very large and complex work depicting many of the forest animals and sea creatures encountered by these coastal Aboriginal people in their daily lives. Note the rainbow serpent, the creature running horizontally through the work and the pair of spirit men or ancestral beings. The long necked tortoise and saltpetre crocodile, colourful reef fish, star fish and manta rays are all included as is the hatch of baby turtles. The tribe is at the heart of it all at their meeting place or campsite with it's central campfire.

Tides of the dolphin Each painting tells a traditional story of the specific dreamings, which are handed down through the generations by their Ancestors. Traditionally Aboriginal Artists are by Tribal Law, only allowed to paint their own Dreamings.

Aboriginal Art Symbols

Aboriginal Art - Symbols

01   innedi tree (small red seeds) 02  witchety grub 03  2 men (each symbol represents 1 man) 04  foot prints 05  rainbow-cloud or sand hill 06   women cooking 07  women sitting with coolamon & digging stick 08  boomerang 09  bush tomato-wild plum 10  honey ants 11  women 12  stone axe 13  emu tracks 14  emu mother earth 15  dreaming trails 16  coolamon  17  wild apples 18  feeding kangaroo tracks 19  child  

20  coolamon with carrying handle 21  camp site-stone well-rock hole-breast-fire-hole or fruit 22  water-rainbow-snake-lightning-cliff-honey store 23  man 24  men sitting with boomerangs & spear 25  spinifex 26  spear thrower 27  dingo tracks 28  woman & man or 2 persons back to back 29  killer boomerang 30  woomera 31  spirit ancestor 32  tribes 33  yam 34  lizard tracks 35  2 men sitting by a water hole 36  water hole 37  returning boomerang 38  4 bladed boomerang used to keep ducks & birds down over water to run them into nets set across water

39 community 40 dreaming track with emus 39  community 40  dreaming track with emus. earth mother energy rising 41  bush onion 42  personsitting 43  possum tracks 44  underground water running 44  water hole & dry creek bed connecting to next water hole 45  ducks flying around water hole 46  music ( clap ) sticks 47  goaanna tracks. (goannas are snake bite immune) 48  star  49  bush banana 50  sand goanna 51  traveling sign with circles as resting place 52  rain 53  moving kangaroo tracks 54  4 women sitting with digging sticks 55  clouds-boomerangs-windbreaks 56  sun father destiny  

Quellenangaben: http://www.spiritofyarramunua.com http://www.jintaart.com.au http://www.didgeridoos.net.au