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Summary
Collection of 17 original paintings of an exhibition, Saltwater Country. Each painting depicts a member of the Saltwater people in their natural surroundings and activities. It showcases their love for nature, their aspirations and concerns, captured in the captions and expressed in each painting. The captions also feature Bardi terms of the artwork and bushnames of the collaborators.
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Title devised by cataloguer. Artist's signature found mostly on the lower right-hand corner and some on the left-hand corner.
Subjects
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- Western Australia -- Dampier Peninsula
- Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity. -- Western Australia -- Dampier Peninsula
- Environmental protection -- Western Australia -- Dampier Peninsula.
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Call Number
ART0216
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