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Aboriginal paintings are often made in places that are sacredsacredsacredsacred to the Aboriginal people. A sacred place is a place that the Aborigines believe belongs to the Ancestor SpiritsAncestor SpiritsAncestor SpiritsAncestor Spirits.
This painting on rock is thousands of years old.Sa
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Rock art is an important part of Aboriginal people’s lives. The paintings are very old.
The Aboriginal people of ArnhemLand believe that Mimi SpiritsMimi SpiritsMimi SpiritsMimi Spiritswere the first of the Dreamtime Ancestor Spirits to paint on rock.
They taught the Aboriginal people how to hunt and how to paint.
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These Mimi Spirits are shown chasing across rocks in Arnhem Land.
They are mischievous trickster spirits that are said to live in the nooks and crannies of rocks and come out at night to hunt and dance.
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Mimi Spirits are said to be so thin that they can only come out of their hiding places when there is no wind, otherwise they’d be blown away.
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This rock painting in Arnhem Land is a painting of the Rainbow Serpent.
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Many paintings are about the adventures of the Ancestor Spirits.
This artist’s painting is about the Rainbow Serpent Ancestor.
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The Rainbow Serpent is one of the most famous animals in Aboriginal stories.
Here is one story….
The whole world was sleeping and everywhere was quiet.One day the huge Rainbow Serpent woke up and crawled to the surface of the Earth. It wandered through the whole country leaving tracks everywhere. Sa
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When the Rainbow Serpent was tired it slept and, when it had seen everything, it went back and called the frogs.
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The frogs came out from their hiding holes with stomachs full of water. The Rainbow Serpent tickled them to make them laugh and as they laughed, water poured out of their mouths.
The water filled the tracks left by the Rainbow Serpent and that was how rivers and creeks were made.
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The Rainbow Serpent was so long that it would take people days to reach the end of its tail and cross the water that filled the tracks it had made in the earth.
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If you look very carefully at this painting you’ll see the long snake and at the bottom of the picture, two men.The two men are getting ready to do the “Long Jump”.
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In stories, the Long Jump was a competition to see who could jump across the serpent’s body without getting caught.
The other three men you can see are doing the “Hop, Step and Jump” across the muddy streams made by the serpent. Sa
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This painting tells the story of how fish began to fill the rivers and swim in the water and how the first Aborigines, watching the fish, learned how to swim.
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The Aboriginal warriors learned how to dive into the water to catch crabs and swim to catch fish. They learned to row bark canoes that they had carved out from large trees and they learned that competing against one another was fun!
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Aboriginal artists often paint animals.
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They paint the animals as part of the Dreamtime, when the land was first formed.
These are rock paintings.
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Kangaroos are often seen in paintings
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In the parts of Australia where there are rainforests and lots of trees, artists paint on bark that has been stripped from eucalyptus trees and then left to dry.
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This is a modern Aboriginal rock painting showing the kangaroo being hunted by a Mimi Spirit.
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The Aborigines were clever hunters.
They would find, identify and follow the tracks of animals.
The tracks of animals and the footprints of humans are often shown in Aboriginal paintings.Sa
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