Birrundudu Drawings alice springs Upswell Publishing

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The works resulted from the men’s engagement with the anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt

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Birrundudu Drawings alice springs Upswell PublishingA collection of 810 crayon drawings were created by sixteen Aboriginal men working on Birrundudu, a Northern Territory cattle station in 1945. The works resulted from the mens engagement with the anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt. Dutifully recording as much information about their meaning as he could, Ronald Berndt and the men who made these drawings captured an extraordinary record of the Country, ancestors, history and ceremonies of the