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...Irian Jaya, about 145 nautical mi. (270 km) to the northwest. If they can avoid detection, the men could bring home a spectacular catch of shark fin (which can sell for $A200 a kg) and retire. The court houses and lock-ups on Thursday Island and in the Arnhem Land town of Nhulunbuy are stretched due to an official crackdown on FFVs. In 2003, 138 vessels were apprehended, mostly in northern waters; this year the tally has reached 69. Masters are fined in the first instance; jailed for repeat offenses. Boats are impounded (vessel owners pay a bond to retrieve...
...Maxwell Valley, provided the first proof that rock art in Australia had survived from the last Ice Age, which ended roughly 10,000 years ago. Tasmania was then joined to the Australian mainland by a land bridge, and though the island's stencils may not be as old as Arnhem Land's tableaux of long-limbed spirits, or as elaborate as the red spectral figures of the Kimberley region's Bradshaw paintings, they still inspire wonder, for the Ice Age hunters and their families here were living further south than anyone else then on the planet. Today this cave entrance...
With the festival's Body Dreaming, process is all. An outdoor showcase of the body painting, initiation and men's ceremonies of the Yirrkala region of northeast Arnhem Land, it was a show more organic than organized. On opening night, indigenous women in the audience cackled, men heckled and a singing elder left the stage coughing in mid-performance. For white audiences, it was a matter of leaving behind the assumptions of Western theater. Enacted on a red-dirt stage at dusk, it brought a sense of simple ritual to Adelaide. "That's it for tonight," said Body Dreaming...
...There's a songline from Arnhem Land right through the Central Desert to Adelaide that hasn't been touched for a very long time," says Stephen Page. Last week his festival took you there...
...this edition Peterson has added a jewel - 80 extra images from Thomson's trove of 10,500 negatives from Arnhem Land and Cape York. (These, along with 5,700 artefacts and 4,500 pages of field notes, form a priceless ethnographic collection at Museum Victoria.) They document the vanished world of a self-sufficient and proud nomadic society: a solemn young widow receiving a ceremonial staff topped with a bundle of string and her husband's finger bone; hunters gliding stealthily on canoes through the giant Arafura Swamp. Particularly powerful are the portraits, so different from the era's stiff...