FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Aboriginal men painting bodies, preparing for dances. Wooden totems and animals. Dances performed - Creation, Dove, Crow and Gecko Lizard; The Penalty for Adultery is Death; The Fairy Girls Created the Fresh Water Shark; Pikuwa and Kena, the Freshwater and Salt Water Crocodiles Fight; the Courting and Mating of the Curlew. The dances in this film pertain exclusively to the totems of the five language groupings / clans in the Wik / Aurukun area (Apalech, Sara, Winchunum, Puutch and Wanam)