- Title
- The mystery of the Moranghurk sculptures
- Creator
- Cahir, David (Fred)
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/100899
- Identifier
- vital:10616
- Identifier
- http://library.federation.edu.au/record=b2625789
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-1-925333-51-0
- Abstract
- Since the earliest colonial days in Australia there have been a large number of reports of what have variously been described as stone carving, rock sculptures, earthen sculptures and rock engravings by Aboriginal people. The most prominent of these has been on the wooden sculptures emanating from northern Australia. Few anthropologists have minutely reported on what McCarthy described as examples of Aboriginal 'plastic art'. Aboriginal sculptures 'crudely fashioned' from beeswax, some of them 'made to represent human figures' but more generally 'modelled' to represent 'kangaroos, turtles, goannas, crocodiles and birds'. One of the most widely reported earthen carvings in what is now known as Victoria was described as the Challicum Bunyip. This was reputed to be an outline of a creature known as a bunyip, which was gouged into the ground. Other accounts of life-sized Aboriginal sculpture in Victoria are not numerous but certainly extant.
- Publisher
- Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd
- Relation
- Goldfields and the gothic : A hidden heritage & folklore p. 143-150
- Rights
- Copyright © in this collection: David Waldron, 2016. The copyright in each essay belongs to the essayist.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- Culturally sensitive
- Subject
- Moranghurk sculptures; Goldfields; Victoria; Australia; History; Folklore
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