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Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters
Margo Neale (ed.), with Martu, Ngaanyatjarra, and Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara knowledge holders and artists · 2017 · English, with Martu Wangka, Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara, and Yankunytjatjara terms
Scholarship
Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters
Margo Neale (ed.), with Martu, Ngaanyatjarra, and Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara knowledge holders and artists
Catalogue of the National Museum of Australia's exhibition, developed with the custodians of the Seven Sisters songlines of the Western and Central Deserts, who decided what could be shared publicly. The exhibition later toured to Paris, Berlin, Plymouth, Perth, and New Delhi.
About this work
Catalogue of the National Museum of Australia's exhibition, developed with the custodians of the Seven Sisters songlines of the Western and Central Deserts, who decided what could be shared publicly. The exhibition later toured to Paris, Berlin, Plymouth, Perth, and New Delhi.
Where to start
Begin with the custodians' own introductions and the maps of the songlines before the art.
Figures in the text
Heroes and divinities who feature prominently, with where they appear.
Key scenes
Turning points of the work, in reading order.
The pursuit across the deserts
The sisters travel across the Countries of several peoples, pursued by a man who uses magic and changes shape; the places they pass are marked in the land.
Into the sky
The sisters rise into the sky as the Pleiades, and the man follows, seen in stars of Orion.
Stories drawn from it
Retellings in the atlas that quote or cite this work.
About this record
By Elizabeth Stein for Mythos Atlas. About the author. Editorial notes are grounded in the site's cited sources and can be challenged through the contact page.
Dates and authorship follow standard scholarly references; for many ancient works both are approximate or disputed.