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Renewing Women’s Business - A Documentary

Copyright 2005 Wardaman Aboriginal Corporation

This 57 minute film by Julie Drew (MPhilUSyd and Burbank Production Services) demonstrates the contemporary relevance of women’s traditions in Aboriginal culture and how the knowledge of these ancient traditions is kept alive.

Further information www.wardamanwomensbusiness.com/wwbcstory.html

Synopsis
Lily Gin.gina is a women in her 70’s and the last initiated female elder of the Wardaman people of Victoria River District in the Top End of the Northern Territory

Lily’s oral knowledge about the laws of the land from her ancestors is transformed to written Wardaman words and the children are inspired by the bush education.

By visiting the spectacular rock art places of her country Lily reveals to the young girls the meanings of ancestral images connected to the origins of women’s law.

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