Aboriginal Paintings of the Wolfe Creek Crater: Track of the Rainbow Serpent

by Peggy Reeves Sanday

Book Overview

Told in Aboriginal art and narrative, the Dreamtime story of the creation and meaning of the Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater in Australia's Western Desert appears here for the first time. Deftly and sensitively Sanday introduces the meaning of the cosmology of the homeland of the Walmajarri and Djaru Aboriginal people. She provides a compelling story of discovery, both that of her geologist father in 1947 and her own decades later. In a vibrant example...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931707952
• ISBN13: 9781931707954
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publication
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"