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Namatjira: traveller between two worlds
Heritage of Namatjira : the watercolourists of central Australia • Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Published In 1992 • Pages: [97]-136 , [3] plates
By: Jones, Philip.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Albert Namatjira, the Aranda watercolorist, painted nearly two thousand pictures during his lifetime and founded a 'school' of artists among the western Aranda. This essay presents a biographical sketch of Namatjira and his works, and the various influences that brought his creative talents to a peak. Jones depicts Namatjira as an autonomous individual, who with ambition and a pragmatic approach to life, adapted to a new world that offered many new opportunities to those who were capable of claiming them. In addition to the data on Namatjira, this article also contains information on the Lutheran Mission at Hermannsburg, socio-cultural change in Aranda society, and brief notes on other Native artists and their works.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Representative art
- Sacred objects and places
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aranda
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Australia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1994
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1870-1990
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Hermannsburg, Northern Territory, Australia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Philip Jones
- Not all of the plates mentioned in the text have been included
- Bibliographical references are in document number 47
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aranda (Australian people)