Aboriginal Children's Dance in the Northern Territory
A Warlpiri elder leads a boy in a “Purlapa” traditional dance in Lajamanu school grounds. He is decorated with “wamurlu”, a chopped vegetable down coloured with red ochre and glued on the body. The headdress is built up on the head, topped with emu feathers.
Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Fri Apr 09, 1976