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There are many types of and methods used in making Aboriginal art, including rock painting, dot painting, rock engravings, bark painting, carvings, sculptures, weaving, and string art. Australian Aboriginal art is the oldest unbroken tradition of art in the world. [1] [2] [3]
Gwion Gwion (Tassel) figures wearing ornate costumes. The Gwion Gwion rock paintings, Gwion figures, Kiro Kiro or Kujon (also known as the Bradshaw rock paintings, Bradshaw rock art, Bradshaw figures and the Bradshaws) are one of the two major regional traditions of rock art found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia.
The Mudgegonga rock shelter is a large rock overhang which contains over 400 Aboriginal wall paintings and stencils and evidence of prehistoric Aboriginal occupation. The site is located in north eastern Victoria near the town of Mudgegonga, and is associated with rich artefact deposits that shows occupation of the region by 3,500 years ago and may have been used several thousand years before ...
It is known that the practice of Panaramitee Style rock art is still practised in modernity through a number of ethnographic examples. [6] [5] From at least 13,000 years ago Australian Aboriginal people were producing the Panaramitee Style petroglyphs, and have continued that tradition to this day. [citation needed]
There are 1,500 pieces of Aboriginal art in Sydney, more than half of which contain rock art, and around 1,500 caves or shelters which contain cultural deposit. They are comparable [ clarification needed ] with the petroglyphs of Native Americans and the rock art found elsewhere in Australia, but have their own distinctive style which is quite ...
Wandjina rock art on the Barnett River, Mount Elizabeth Station. The Wandjina, also written Wanjina and Wondjina and also known as Gulingi, are cloud and rain spirits from the Wanjina Wunggurr cultural bloc of Aboriginal Australians, depicted prominently in rock art in northwestern Australia.
Quinkan rock art refers to a large body of locally, nationally and internationally significant Aboriginal rock art in Australia of a style characterised by their unique representations of "Quinkans" (an Aboriginal mythological being, often spelt "Quinkin"), found among the sandstone escarpments around the small town of Laura, Queensland (aka Quinkan region or Quinkan country). [1]
A small part of the Wurdi Youang stone arrangement. Aboriginal stone arrangements are a form of rock art constructed by Aboriginal Australians.Typically, they consist of stones, each of which may be about 30 centimetres (12 in) in size, laid out in a pattern extending over several metres or tens of metres.