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Jadagen, warnkan, barnden = Wet time, cold time, hot time : changing climate in Gija Country / Gordon Barney [and eight other painters] ; Frances Kofod, Sonia Leonard, Alana Hunt.

Record no:

86688

Call no:

T/572.99414 JAD

Author:

Kofod, Frances ; Leonard, Sonia ; Hunt, Alana ; Warmun Art Centre

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publisher:

Warmun via Kununarra, W.A.: Warmun Art Centre

Year:

2013

Description:

107 p. : col. ill., ports. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Kitja (Australian people) - Social life and customs;
Kitja / Gija language;
Australian Aborigines - Western Australia - Kimberley Region - Painting;
Climatic changes - Western Australia - Environmental aspects;
Australian Aborigines - Ecology;

Traditional ecological knowledge - Western Australia, Northwestern;
Australian Aborigines - Western Australia, Northwestern - Ethnoecology;

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Isbn:

9780980762914

Notes:

Illustrated with paintings by Gordon Barney, Churchill Cann, Betty Carrington, Mabel Juli, Nancy Nodea, Lena Nyadbi, Rusty Peters, Shirley Purdie, Mary Thomas.
Produced by Frances Kofod, Sonia Leonard and Warmun Art Centre.
Gija transcriptions and translations: Frances Kofod.
Warmun Art Centre Staff Consultant: Alana Hunt.
English with some Kitja text.
Exhibited at The Cross Art Projects, Sydney: 31 August to 21 September 2013.
Presented in association with Warmun Art Centre and the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF).
Digital catalogue available online.

Type:

Book

Abstract:

Jadagen, Warnkan, Barnden is a detailed and intimate account of Gija knowledge of seasonal and climatic change through painting, story and language. This exhibition and publication seeks to strengthen and pass on Gija ways of knowing to younger generations

within our community and to people beyond. -Back cover.

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Contents:

Foreword / Adam Boyd -- Traditional ecological knowledge and climate change adaptation in contemporary Indigenous society / Sonia Leonard -- Language and the land / Frances Kofod -- Faith and knowledge / Alana Hunt -- Jadagen : wet time -- Warnkan: cold

time -- Barnden: hot time -- Artists -- Gija spelling and punctuation.

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Links:

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