Cover art for Birrundudu Drawings
Published
Upswell, August 2025
ISBN
9781763733145
Format
Hardcover

Birrundudu Drawings

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A collection of 810 crayon drawings were created by sixteen Aboriginal men working on a Northern Territory cattle station in 1945. That place was Birrundudu, an outpost of Gordon Downs, a large cattle station with a lease that extended across the Northern Territory and Western Australian borders.

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 region. These drawings sat in silence for the eighty years since they were created, now brought to the world for the first time.

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