Download or read book The Material Culture of Basketry written by Stephanie Bunn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Material Culture of Basketry celebrates basketry as a culturally significant skilled practice and as a theoretically rich discipline which has much to offer contemporary society. While sometimes understudied and underappreciated, it has much in common with mathematics and engineering, art, craft and design, and can also act as a socially beneficial source of skill and care. Contributors show how local knowledge of materials, plants and place are central to the craft. Case studies include the skill in weaverbird nest building (challenging how we perceive learning in craft and nature), an engineer's perspective on twining Peruvian grass bridges, and the local knowledge embodied in Pacific plaited patterns and knots. Photo-essays explore materials and techniques from the point of view of artists, anthropologists and mathematicians, revealing how the structure and skill in basketwork illustrate a significant form of textile technology. Thus, the book argues that the textures, patterns and geometric forms that emerge through basketwork reflect an embodied knowledge which expresses mathematical and engineering comprehension. The therapeutic value of the craft is recognised through a selection of case studies which consider basketry as a healing process for patients with brain injury, mental health problems, and as a memory aid for people living with dementia. This reclaims basketry's significant role in occupational therapy as an agent of recovery and well–being. Finally, basketry's inherently sustainable nature is also considered, demonstrating the continuation of basketry in spite of handwork's general decline and profiling new and recycled materials. Above all the book envisages basketry as an intellectually rewarding means of knowing. It presents the craft as embodying care for skilled making and for the social and natural environments in which it flourishes.

Download or read book Collecting Colour written by Kylie Dunstan and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting Colour tells the story of a day spent collecting colour in the Top End of the Northern Territory, narrated by a white Australian girl, Rose. Rose s best friend Olive s mother, Karrang, makes beautiful coloured baskets, mats and bags from leaves from the pandanus palm a tall, thin tree with very long, spiky leaves. Rose and Olive spend a day out bush helping to gather the pandanus leaves and stringy bark for making into strong bags and baskets. They collect the colour that the bags will be bright yellows and pinks, from special plants and berries. It is a hard day s work for Rose, but the results are worth it. Collecting Colour, featuring stunning collage illustrations on Nepalese paper, is a feast for the senses and is also a fascinating insight into the way of life of fibre artists, who produce beautiful, original work in often difficult conditions. Ages: 3+ Price: $28.99 HB

Download or read book A PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATION OF ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN DECORATIVE ART written by DANIEL SUTHERLAND DAVIDSON and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bush Toys written by Claudia Haagen and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive literature survey of descriptions of Aboriginal childrens toys and games; tables of bibliographic references to types of toys, and locations of toys in museum collections in Australia.

Download or read book Tayenebe written by Julie Gough and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tayenebe is an exhibition about Tasmanian Aboriginal women's historic & contemporary fibre work. Tayenebe is a word of the southeast Nueonne people of Bruny Island that means 'exchange' & the exhibition reveals three centuries of different cross and intercultural interactions based on the making and collecting of Tasmanian Aboriginal fibrework.

Download or read book How to Make a Basket written by Jazz Money and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Australianama written by Samia Khatun and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charts the history of South Asian diaspora, weaving together stories of various peoples colonized by the British Empire.

Download or read book Mat and Basket Weaving of the Ancient Hawaiians Described and Compared with the Basketry of the Other Pacific Islanders written by William Tufts Brigham and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Eye Contact written by Jane Lydon and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA historical ethnography of photographs as a colonial tool and as reappropriated by the indigenous population from the 1860s through the 1920s and in the present./div

Download or read book Sorry Sorry written by Anne Kerr and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorry Sorry could be a first step of informing these young children of a significant aspect of Australian history, with age appropriate illustrations and dialogue. This book could also be an introduction to understanding the journey of reconciliation with Australia’s First Peoples.

Download or read book Australian Art written by Andrew Sayers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey uniquely covers both Aboriginal art and that of European Australians, providing a revealing examination of the interaction between the two. Painting, bark art, photography, rock art, sculpture, and the decorative arts are all fully explored to present the rich texture of Australian art traditions. Well-known artists such as Margaret Preston, Rover Thomas, and Sidney Nolan are all discussed, as are the natural history illustrators, Aboriginal draughtsmen, and pastellists, whose work is only now being brought to light by new research. Taking the European colonization of the continent in 1788 as his starting point, Sayers highlights important issues concerning colonial art and women artists in this fascinating new story of Australian art.

Download or read book Indigenous Australia written by Gaye Sculthorpe and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany major exhibitions at the British Museum and the National Museum of Australia in 2015, Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation uses objects from the extraordinary collection of the British Museum to celebrate the unique and ongoing relationship that Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders have to place and country. This groundbreaking new publication also explores the profound impact and legacy of colonialism, the nature of collecting and the changing meaning of objects now in the collection of the British Museum. This richly illustrated book challenges pre-existing ideas about Indigenous Australian culture and highlights its beauty, diversity and vitality.

Download or read book Ancestors Artefacts Empire written by Gaye Sculthorpe and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using extraordinary Indigenous Australian art and artifacts preserved in museums across Great Britain and Ireland, the authors present a global history that entwines ancestral pasts with epochs of empire and colony leading to the contemporary moment.

Download or read book Shell Bed to Shell Midden written by Betty Meehan and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Imagined Destinies written by Russell McGregor and published by ACLS History E-Book Project. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the doomed race theory and its place in the Western imagination. This study applies observations to the relationship between white Australians and the Aboriginals.

Download or read book First Knowledges Design written by Alison Page and published by Thames & Hudson Australia. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and storytelling, refined over many millennia, are now being applied to contemporary practices. Design: Building on Country issues a challenge for a new Australian design ethos, one that truly responds to the essence of Country and its people. About the series: Each book is a collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers and editors; the series is edited by Margo Neale, senior Indigenous curator at the National Museum of Australia. Other titles in the series include: Songlines by Margo Neale & Lynne Kelly (2020); Country by Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe (2021); Plants by Zena Cumpston, Michael Fletcher & Lesley Head (2022); Astronomy (2022); Innovation (2023).

Download or read book Ancestral Modern written by Pamela McClusky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at Australian Aboriginal art over the past four decades, highlighting millennia-old artistic traditions