Masked histories : turtle shell masks and Torres Strait Islander people / Leah Lui-Chivizhe.
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Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult Nonfiction | 391 .43499 12 LUI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111085519120 |
Contains bibliographical references, glossary, and index.
"The stories Islanders once told, sang and danced continue to tell us about our past and are vital elements of my telling of this history. Across the Torres Strait, myths, stories, ceremony, places and objects were principla keepers of Islander history. By the early twentieth century, the large turtle shell masks that connected Islanders to their seas, to the living and the deceased, that held the stories of their making and their uses in ceremony were all but gone ... Using Islanders' myths and stories and the turtle shell masks themselves, I reanimate the masks with their Islander histories of meaning and purpose." -- Back cover.
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