Aboriginal Children's Dance in the Northern Territory

Warlpiri “Purlapa”

At the “Purlapa wiri” (Big Corroborree) festival in Alekarenge near Tennant Creek, boys do their high- stepping dance. They are painted with red ochre and decorated with “wamurlu”, vegetable down coloured with ochre and white ash stuck to their bodies.

Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Sun May 02, 1976
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