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Our Dreaming State Library of Queensland Collection in kuril dhagun 

Tellin' Country, Logan

Jingeri Jingeri the hero by Shakira, Shakaya, Shakila and Shakia and Goanna Princess by the Logan Boys from Tellin' Country, Logan
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Screenshot taken from Jingeri Jingeri the hero bScreenshot taken from Jingeri Jingeri the hero by Shakira, Shakaya, Shakila and Shakia from Tellin' Country, Logany Shakira, Shakaya, Shakila and Shakia and Goanna Princess by the Logan Boys from Tellin' Country, Logan

Tellin' Country Woorabinda

Tellin' Country Woorabinda. Includes The Bucky Rodeo by Lauryn Hill and I like to play football by Stafford Saunders
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Screenshot taken from Porky Hunting, By Grade 8 & 9 Wadja Wadja HIgh School, as part of Tellin' Country Woorabinda

Tellin' Country with Wujal Wujal

Tellin' Country with Wujal Wujal. Includes Scrub hen by Wujal Wujal women.
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A screenshot taken from a video of drawn animation, picturing an Australian Scrub Turkey on top of a nest

Tellin' Country Stradbroke

Tellin' Country Stradbroke includes Blue Lake by Coen Costelloe, The dugong story by Kaiala Costelloe, Eugaries by Kurawena Ruska, Fast, black and deadly by Valley Murray, Preston and theStraddie Sharks by Preston Cockatoo-Collins and Porky hunting by Wadja Wadja School Year 8s and Year 9s.
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A screenshot from an animated video featuring a sea slug in the ocean

The story of Koemuthnab

The story of Koemuthnab told by Matilda Bani. Mabuiag Island, Torres Strait. A dutiful wife and her children become outcasts after a shaving incident with her angry husband. For acknowledgements, translation and transcription, see ReTold - Koemuthnab
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Screenshot taken from the story of Koemuthnab, picturing a person pointing at a map of the island Pulu

The story of Wameyal

The story of Wameyal told by Eric Babia. Mabuiag Island, Torres Strait. Children's love and obsession with playing string games land them into trouble with their parents. For acknowledgements, translation and trancription, see ReTold - Wameyal
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The story of Atmer and Gelam

The story of Atmer and Gelam told by Elimo Tapim. Mer Island, Torres Strait. A mother's trickery and lies cause Gelam, a skillful hunter, to flee his island in a wooden dugong and travel eastward - a journey that eventuates in creation of the islands of Mer, Waier and Dauar. For acknowledgements, transcription and translation, see ReTold - Gelam
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The story of 'Biw'

The story of 'Biw', by Harriet Ober. Sabai Island, Torres Strait. Biw, the mangrove pod, and Githalay, the crab trigger, create a chain of events that end in the sea becoming salty. For acknowledgements, translation and transcription, see ReTold - Biw
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The story of Doker

The story of Doker by Isaac Charlie. Badu Island, Torres Strait. A man catches a turtle and travels around the island of Badu. He finds a beautiful waterhole and has an unfortunate accident. For acknowledgements, translation and transcription, see ReTold - Doker
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Culture Love Children's Workshop

The digital story Amipuru, retells one of the myths recorded in Margaret Lawrie's work, Myths and Legends of Torres Strait. Partnering with the Torres Strait Island Regional Council's Indigenous Knowledge Centre (IKC) at Mabuiag Island, children were inspired to retell Amipuru during literacy through the arts, writer and illustrator workshops in 2008. During the Mabuiag IKC's culture love children's language workshop in April 2010, the children used clay and sculpture, combining these images with their retelling of the Amipuru story in Kalaw Lagaw Ya.
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Culture Love Children's Workshop

The story of Wawa

The story of Wawa, told by Walter Waria. Badu Island, Torres Strait. Wawa, a creature with supernatural powers, helps a man with his catch of mating turtles. Things go horribly wrong when the man betrays Wawa. For more information, transcripts and translation, see ReTold - Wawa
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Our Dreaming External Collection in kuril dhagun 

A turtle, people, and a boat sculpted out of putty-like modelling material.

Hunting for Turtle

by Jahn, Kaleb and Lester from Wujal Wujal for a Royal Flying Doctor Service Digital Telling Stories project, 2012.

Two 3D animated manta rays swim in the ocean.

The Dreamings from the Saltwater Country

by the Yanyuwa people for the Monash Country Lines Archive, 2011. Courtesy of Monash University.Telling Stories project, 2012.

Hunting for Turtle

by Jahn, Kaleb and Lester from Wujal Wujal for a Royal Flying Doctor Service Digital Telling Stories project, 2012.

Royal Flying Doctor Service - Digital Telling Stories Project

Actively working with a number of Cape York Peninsula and Lower Gulf of Carpentaria Aboriginal and rural communities to build their capacity to respond to Social and Emotional Wellbeing issues.

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The Dreamings from the Saltwater Country

by the Yanyuwa people for the Monash Country Lines Archive, 2011. Courtesy of Monash University.Telling Stories project, 2012.

Monash University Country Lines Archive

Using world-class 3D animation to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in the sharing and preservation of knowledge and stories.

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A 3D animated Australian Indigenous family, with a man holding his hand out to check for rain.

Wadu Matyidi - A Long Time Gone

Courtesy of Incite Stories and Farda Film.

A young Indigenous person poses with arms up in neon face paint in front of a decorated arch. The aesthetic is 'neon junk punk'.

Junk Punks

by the Love Punks as part of the Yijala Yala Project and Big hART.

 

Wadu Matyidi - A Long Time Gone

Courtesy of Incite Stories and Farda Film.

 

Developed with the Adnyamathanha people of Flinders Range, South Australia to help learn their language and to gain a better understanding of the Adnyamathanha world, past and present.

 

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Junk Punks

by the Love Punks as part of the Yijala Yala Project and Big hART.

Part of Big hART’s Yijala Yala Project, which aims to develop the digital media skills of young people while creating artworks that promote the rich indigenous cultural resources of the Pilbara.

 

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Our Dreaming International Indigenous Animations in kuril dhagun 

Three simplistically animated people stand surrounded by palm tree trunks.

Te Lima

from the Tales of Nanuema series by Siosism.

Drawn person wearing blue scarf with crucifix symbols patting grey dog.

Wolf Dog Tales

produced, directed and written by Bernadine Santistevan, animated by Igor. 2012

Te Lima

from the Tales of Nanuema series by Siosism.

A series of international cultural animations from the Polynesian Islands of Nanuema and Tuvalu.

 

Wolf Dog Tales

produced, directed and written by Bernadine Santistevan, animated by Igor. 2012

An international animation of Spanish and Native American cultures.

Other animations featured in the exhibition Cape Treasures

A State Library of Queensland project exploring the interconnectedness of country and place, people, identity and culture of the Aboriginal communities of Cape York.

  • Adventures at Thompson's Creek (Kuku Yalanji language)
  • Adventures at Thompson's Creek (English language)
  • The Wallaby and the Dugong (English language)
  • The Wallaby and the Dugong (Umpila language)
  • The Kaangkan Brothers (English language)
  • The Journey to Injinoo (English language)