Yirrawala, a great Aboriginal painter, takes his sons, who have grown up in the white man’s world, back into Arnhem Land in an attempt to find sacred caves and aboriginal art. During the journey, Yirrawala makes a bark painting in the traditional way and he shows us cave paintings never before recorded.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
300046
Language
English
Subject categories
Aboriginal Australia → Sacred sites (Australian Aboriginal)
Aboriginal Australia → Yirawala, 1894-9176
Crafts & Visual Arts → Aboriginal Australian artists
Crafts & Visual Arts → Rock paintings
Sound/audio
Captioned
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)