Songlines : tracking the Seven Sisters / edited by Margo Neale.
Material type: TextPublisher: Canberra, A.C.T. : National Museum of Australia Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st editionDescription: 255 pages : colour illustrations, maps, colour portraits ; 29 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781921953293 (paperback)Subject(s): Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology) -- Exhibitions | Mythology, Aboriginal Australian -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 704.039915074 Summary: This stunning companion to the National Museum of Australia's blockbuster Indigenous-led exhibition, Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, explores the history and meaning of songlines, the Dreaming or creation tracks that crisscross the Australian continent, of which the Seven Sisters songline is one of the most extensive. Through stunning artworks (many created especially for the exhibition), story, and in-depth analysis, the book will provide the definitive resource for those interested in finding out more about these complex pathways of spiritual, ecological, economic, cultural, and ontological knowledge - the stories 'written in the land'.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Published to accompanythe exhibition Songlines: tracking the Seven Sisters, National Museum of Australia, opening 15 September, 2017.
This stunning companion to the National Museum of Australia's blockbuster Indigenous-led exhibition, Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, explores the history and meaning of songlines, the Dreaming or creation tracks that crisscross the Australian continent, of which the Seven Sisters songline is one of the most extensive. Through stunning artworks (many created especially for the exhibition), story, and in-depth analysis, the book will provide the definitive resource for those interested in finding out more about these complex pathways of spiritual, ecological, economic, cultural, and ontological knowledge - the stories 'written in the land'.
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