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What do the Aboriginal Colours Mean?
THE
ABORIGINAL
COLOURS
BLACK
Black stands for the Aborigine people & the Night
YELLOW
Yellow is the sacred colour. The colour of the Sun
RED
is for the colour of the land and for blood.
We are all of the one blood, from the land we come and to it we will
all return.
WHITE
White is the spirit colour.
.. water, smoke, lightning
Seriously
Now
Rick....How do you play the didgeridoo and what is circular
breathing ?
Here's
some background information ...
Hope it helps..........
OCHRE PAINTING
Brushes were made from tufts of fur or bark, feathers and sticks. To make
these ancient pigments stick, honey or Fig tree sap was used, or sometimes
just water and it was touched up regularly at ceremonies..........
Ancient paintings in caves sometimes describe events that can be scientifically
proven.
Like the rising of the seas, the change from lush forest to desert, and
stars disappearing.
These are ancient events, but Aboriginal elders say that
we come from this country and we have always been here from way, way back
in the Dreamtime.
So that’s how we know about them.
Ochres have a long history with the human race and many have mythological
and traditional associations with Aboriginee people going back hundreds
of centuries.
Ochre is very important for body painting to this very day.
Aboriginal dancers and performers in the bush or in the city still re
enact ancient adventures of the dream time in their dances. And we still
wear ancient traditional ochre designs painted on our bodies for ceremony
and paint with ochres.
.My ancestors' traditional art style is stencil art. That’s where
you spray the ochre
with the mouth.
that's
me in ..well a long time ago
This ancient stencil art form was once practiced all over the world
but now probably Australia would have the most extensive stencil art sites.
Boomerangs, stone axes, hand signals, even animals were sprayed over as
stencils.
These paintings on cave walls in ochre told stories, recorded history
and declared ownership. Simple line and dot paintings were used to record
the many myths and legends of the tribe.They could be interpreted in many
ways so only the fully initiated elders knew the full story......
Figures and symbols were also carved into rocks and cave walls by patiently
tapping with a harder rock.......
Too hard?
O well, just give up...ooorr.
Suggestion:
Fingernail paint - multiple colours, own little brush,
permanent...on a black background?...sheet of paper, wood, ??? Best for
a group so all contribute diferent colours
...or dot painting with crushed chalk paint using cotton buds?
Mix it with a little bit of glue and water or spray after with hairspray to make it permanent..!
Shelter
Humpies are Indigenous shelters
made from natural materials..
Tribes have specialised tradirional humpies according to the locality
and materials available.
Bark was used to make humpies to
last a couple of days, months or years.
Often they would be decorated on the inside of the bark with ochres.
Aborigines might use the same campsites over generations where there was
a reliable food supply. Tribes travelled with their most basic of necessities
often leaving heavier items behind.. equipment not needed for the next
camp etc. Sometimes nets or stone tools were too heavy to carry and anyway
the next camp had its own supplies so some things would be left in the
old humpies till next season... Humpybong near Redcliffe QLD. Australia,
when the British abandoned the area in favour of Brisbane they left behind
their empty huts. Murris called it Humpybong meaning dead humpies...(Bong
- dead)
CONTACT
Rodney Boschman
0439 306 332
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