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Yorro yorro : original creation and the renewal of nature : rock paintings and stories from the Australian Kimberley / David Mowaljarlai, Jutta Malnic

Record no:

70550

Call no:

572.99414 MOW

Author:

Mowaljarlai, David, 1925-1997 ; Malnic, Jutta

Edition:

Rev. and expanded ed.

Publisher:

Broome, W.A.: Magabala Books

Year:

2015

Description:

xviii, 233 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map, ports. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Australian Aborigines - Western Australia - Kimberley Region - Sacred sites;
Australian Aborigines - Western Australia - Kimberley Region - Religion;
Australian Aborigines - Western Australia - Kimberley Region - Rock art;
Australian Aborigines - Western Australia - Kimberley Region - Rock paintings;

Isbn:

9781925360059

Type:

Book

Abstract:

Yorro Yorro tells of Wandjina creation spirits and their 'crossing over' into ancestral beings and then eventually into human form. Yorro Yorro translated from Ngarinyin means 'everything standing up alive'. It follows the journey of original creation

in the Kimberley and renewal of nature.

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