Photos of Aboriginal Children from Northern Australia

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Aboriginal Children from Northern Australia

Like everywhere in the world, Aboriginal kids are indulged by their parents, but the extended family is also very important. A child knows from a very early age who their relatives are, how they must be called with the correct kinship names and what their rights and obligations are with each one. They also learn their traditional dances and songs and are always encouraged to perform at the public ceremonies. Although "disco" now seems an inevitable part of life in Aboriginal communities, the traditional dances are still done and children are decorated for ceremonies and for the "fun" corroborees that are part of life, as they have been forever.

VRD School
 
Boy with spears
 
Boys painted up
 
Using a calculator
 
Cooling off
 
Reading a book
 
Boys on the trampoline
 
Friends in Borroloola
 
Clapping boomerangs
 
Cat's cradle
 
String game
 
Girls' game
 
Drinking water
 
Bubblegum boy
 
Diving in dam
 
Decorated for
 
Young driver
 
Paperbark raft
 
Tea and biscuits
 
Collect
 
Having a bath
 
Five brothers
 
Swim in the Wearyan
 
Two young
 
Eating
 
Cooking a goanna
 
Computer work
 
Doing shot-put
 
Six little heads
 
Collecting water lilies
 
Painted faces
 
Ready for
 
Boy and his dog
 
Borroloola boys
 
Eating chicken
 
Working on a Mac
 
Eating a mango
 
Little Fireman
 
Girl with clay pot
 
Having fun?
 
Brotherly love
 
Riding a turtle
 
Best friends
 
Boys with ice cream
 
Little boys of Borroloola
 
After swimming
 
With a brolga
 
Cooling off
 

Although childhood is a time without worries, children learn from an early age where to find bush foods, how to hunt and fish, even in a time where the supermarket fulfils most of their needs and all communities have schools. The bush is a great place to roam and discover things, especially when there is clear, clean water to go for a drink or a swim. Apart from school, life seems one great holiday here. These children look after themselves and each other, and are quite self-sufficient at an early age.