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Aboriginal Culture

Aboriginal Culture. What does culture mean?. Culture means:. The beliefs, customs, practices and social behaviour of a particular nation or people. 'The land is our food, our culture, our spirit and identity' http://aboriginalart.com.au/culture/dreamtime2.html. Totems.

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Aboriginal Culture

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  1. Aboriginal Culture

  2. What does culture mean?

  3. Culture means: • The beliefs, customs, practices and social behaviour of a particular nation or people

  4. 'The land is our food, our culture, our spirit and identity' http://aboriginalart.com.au/culture/dreamtime2.html

  5. Totems • Aboriginal people had personal totems- which was either a plant or animal. The totem was decided by the place where the mother fell pregnent. • A person would not harm the creatures represented by his or her totem. • Ceremonies were performed on a yearly basis at the site of a totem to keep up the supply of the plant or animal of that totem.

  6. Ceremonies • There were ceremonies specifically for women, men and that included the whole tribe. • Ceremonies ensure that vital components of the lores and The Dreaming stay intact. They provide a time and place where all people in a language group and community work together to maintain and ensure the ongoing survival of spiritual and cultural beliefs. • Queensland Studies Authority http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au/downloads/approach/indigenous_res010_0802.pdf

  7. Families within the tribes were responsible for keeping a particular law, knowledge, belief, story or dance. They are also responsible for making sure they are correctly remembered and passed on. • Specific types of ceremonial dress and ornamentation are worn when dance and song form key elements within ceremonies. These adornments helpAboriginal people connect the physical body to the spiritual world. Through the sacred objects, the body displays the significant symbols and stories that are associated with the ceremony, song, dance and/or ancestor spirit. • Queensland Studies Authority http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au/downloads/approach/indigenous_res010_0802.pdf

  8. Initiation- Girls to Women • When girls hit puberty they can fulfill their traditional roles of food gathers, bearer of children and carer of the elderly, so this is when she is initiated into womanhood. During the initation she is secluded from the group and taught “women’s business” and involved in ritual acts of “body-cleansing, body-painting and ornamentation, and perhaps body scarification.” • Aboriginal Benchbookhttp://www.aija.org.au/online/ICABenchbook/BenchbookChapter2.pdf

  9. Initiation- Boys to Men • Boys approaching puberty are initiated into Manhood. They are removed from their families for an extended period of time where their uncles play a vital role in teaching him the laws and obligations of adult males. • “Male initiation rites include tests of worthiness and courage. Initiation ordeals may include tooth evulsion, circumcision, nose piercing, sleep deprivation, and/or the cutting of ceremonial markings upon skin. These tests are designed to instil qualities of obedience, discipline, self-reliance and cooperativeness.” • Aboriginal Benchbookhttp://www.aija.org.au/online/ICABenchbook/BenchbookChapter2.pdf

  10. Art • Aboriginal symbols (iconography) are an essential part of a long artistic tradition in Australian Aboriginal Art and remain the visual form to retain and record significant information.Aboriginal people used symbols to indicate a sacred site, the location of a waterhole and the means to get there, a place where animals inhabit and as a way to illustrate Dreamtime stories.
Since Aboriginal people traveled vast distances across their country, significant information was recorded using symbols in regular ceremony. Sand painting and awelye (body painting) ceremonies kept the symbols alive and remembered. • http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au/aboriginal-art-culture/aboriginal-symbols-and-their-m.php

  11. Symbols used in Papunya Central Desert art - 
Based on information from "Papunya Tula" by Geoffrey Bardon • http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/culture/symbols.php

  12. http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au/aboriginal-art-culture/aboriginal-symbols-and-their-m.phphttp://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au/aboriginal-art-culture/aboriginal-symbols-and-their-m.php

  13. http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au/aboriginal-art-culture/aboriginal-symbols-and-their-m.phphttp://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au/aboriginal-art-culture/aboriginal-symbols-and-their-m.php

  14. Languages • “Altogether there were about 600 groups, each of which had its own language or dialect. Research has shown that about 260 languages were spoken, and most of these had two or three dialects. A dialect of a language is a slightly different form of the language.” • History Zone 1 pp264

  15. Aboriginal tribes map • http://www.aboriginaleducation.sa.edu.au/pages/Educators/aboriginalaustralia/?reFlag=1

  16. Activity • Using the Kamilaroi language converter website, write “a day in the life of a Kamilaroi boy” using as many Kamiaroi words as you can. Write a least a page in the first person. • Website: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AborigPages/LANG/GAMDICT/GAMDICTF.HTM

  17. Assessment Task • Due 2 weeks from Today

  18. Homework • Create a timeline for pre- contact Aboriginal History.

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