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Masked histories : turtle shell masks and Torres Strait Islander people / Leah Lui-Chivizhe.
Title: Masked histories : turtle shell masks and Torres Strait Islander people / Leah Lui-Chivizhe.
Author:
Lui-Chivizhe, Leah, author.
Book
Type: Book
D391.4349912/LUI/MAIN
Call no: D391.4349912/LUI/MAIN
Carlton, Victoria : Miegunyah Press,
Publisher: Carlton, Victoria : Miegunyah Press,
2022.
Year: 2022.
Art. fast ; Masks. fast ; Torres Strait Islanders. fast ; Torres Strait Islanders - Social life and customs. fast ; Torres Strait Islanders - Social life and customs. ; Torres Strait Islanders - Art. ; Masks - Queensland - Torres Strait Islands. ; Art - Queensland - Torres Strait Islands. ; Stories and motifs. aiatsiss ; Dance - Ceremonial. aiatsiss ; Costume and clothing - Masks. aiatsiss ; Material culture - Turtle / tortoise shell objects and decorations. aiatsiss ; Queensland - Torres Strait Islands. fast ; Torres Strait Islands (Qld TSI SC54, SC55-05) aiatsisp ; Indigenous collection
Subject:
Art. fast ; Masks. fast ; Torres Strait Islanders. fast ; Torres Strait Islanders - Social life and customs. fast ; Torres Strait Islanders - Social life and customs. ; Torres Strait Islanders - Art. ; Masks - Queensland - Torres Strait Islands. ; Art - Queensland - Torres Strait Islands. ; Stories and motifs. aiatsiss ; Dance - Ceremonial. aiatsiss ; Costume and clothing - Masks. aiatsiss ; Material culture - Turtle / tortoise shell objects and decorations. aiatsiss ; Queensland - Torres Strait Islands. fast ; Torres Strait Islands (Qld TSI SC54, SC55-05) aiatsisp ; Indigenous collection
xxii, 215 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), map, portraits (some c
Physical description: xxii, 215 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), map, portraits (some c
Contains bibliographical references, glossary, and index.
"The stories Islanders once told, sang and danced continue to tell us about our past and are vital elements of my telling of this history. Across the Torres Strait, myths, stories, ceremony, places and objects were principla keepers of Islander history. By the early twentieth century, the large turtle shell masks that connected Islanders to their seas, to the living and the deceased, that held the stories of their making and their uses in ceremony were all but gone ... Using Islanders' myths and stories and the turtle shell masks themselves, I reanimate the masks with their Islander histories of meaning and purpose." -- Back cover.
"The stories Islanders once told, sang and danced continue to tell us about our past and are vital elements of my telling of this history. Across the Torres Strait, myths, stories, ceremony, places and objects were principla keepers of Islander history. By the early twentieth century, the large turtle shell masks that connected Islanders to their seas, to the living and the deceased, that held the stories of their making and their uses in ceremony were all but gone ... Using Islanders' myths and stories and the turtle shell masks themselves, I reanimate the masks with their Islander histories of meaning and purpose." -- Back cover.
Notes: Contains bibliographical references, glossary, and index.
"The stories Islanders once told, sang and danced continue to tell us about our past and are vital elements of my telling of this history. Across the Torres Strait, myths, stories, ceremony, places and objects were principla keepers of Islander history. By the early twentieth century, the large turtle shell masks that connected Islanders to their seas, to the living and the deceased, that held the stories of their making and their uses in ceremony were all but gone ... Using Islanders' myths and stories and the turtle shell masks themselves, I reanimate the masks with their Islander histories of meaning and purpose." -- Back cover.
"The stories Islanders once told, sang and danced continue to tell us about our past and are vital elements of my telling of this history. Across the Torres Strait, myths, stories, ceremony, places and objects were principla keepers of Islander history. By the early twentieth century, the large turtle shell masks that connected Islanders to their seas, to the living and the deceased, that held the stories of their making and their uses in ceremony were all but gone ... Using Islanders' myths and stories and the turtle shell masks themselves, I reanimate the masks with their Islander histories of meaning and purpose." -- Back cover.
9780522877953 9780522879148;
ISBN/ISSN: 9780522877953 9780522879148;
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"The stories Islanders once told, sang and danced continue to tell us about our past and are vital elements of my telling of this history. Across the Torres Strait, myths, stories, ceremony, places and objects were principla keepers of Islander history.
By the early twentieth century, the large turtle shell masks that connected Islanders to their seas, to the living and the deceased, that held the stories of their making and their uses in ceremony were all but gone ... Using Islanders' myths and stories and the turtle shell masks themselves, I reanimate the masks with their Islander histories of meaning and purpose." -- Back cover.
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"The stories Islanders once told, sang and danced continue to tell us about our past and are vital elements of my telling of this history. Across the Torres Strait, myths, stories, ceremony, places and objects were principla keepers of Islander history.
By the early twentieth century, the large turtle shell masks that connected Islanders to their seas, to the living and the deceased, that held the stories of their making and their uses in ceremony were all but gone ... Using Islanders' myths and stories and the turtle shell masks themselves, I reanimate the masks with their Islander histories of meaning and purpose." -- Back cover.
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