ABORIGIN

 

Moslem Aborigin in Australia

Most Aborigines live in the Northern Territory (Northern Australia). With so did the type of craft they were also the most widely produced of the area. More specifically Tiwi islands of the region, which has two special islands for Aborigines, namely Bathrust Island and Melville Island. Bathrust Island is a large island with its capital named Nguiu, was Melville island is a smaller island. Both are located approximately 60 kilometers north of Darwin. Both special island is inhabited by Aboriginal people, protected from looting and destruction. Aborigines in the region known as the Tiwi tribe.  

At Melville Island, in the city center, which Milikapiti, there is an arts and crafts community center named Jilamara. Jilamara said in Tiwi language (Aboriginal) means "design". Meanwhile in Nguiu (P. Bathrust), there are two museum buildings, which one is the Tiwi museum named Patakijiyali Museum, the museum of the culture and history of the Tiwi. Museum whose walls are made of a kind of asbestos it is filled with beautiful murals. There murals everywhere, all over the buildings in Bathrust P. and P. Melville. Even the walls of the mini airport is in P. Melville.
 
Other museum is a museum of art (Art Museum) Tiwi. A building that is much broader than Patakijiyali museum building, accommodating a variety of types of works of art and craft Tiwi tribe. The museum is one of menjaid one day trip destination for tourists to the Tiwi islands.
Maintained since the Tiwi tribe culture from antiquity to the present time, an amalgamation of beliefs, religion, social and public responsibility. Tiwi tribe identifies itself by including the family names are derived from the name of their hometown of his ancestors.
 
The tribe also has an annual cultural arts activities, which are called by the name of celebration Kulama 'Cheeky Yam', which was held for 3 days 2 nights every year in the month of October to March. This celebration is meant to recall all the failures in the previous year and anticipate the bad things that might happen in the coming year. In this celebration there is singing and dancing. In this celebration, all those taking part, because it is a form of local culture that he was already very old.

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Aborigines have always been associated with the boomerang, which is a tool or a weapon made ​​of wood rush. Boomerang has a privilege, which if thrown, the boomerang will slide back to the thrower. In addition to backfire, also known as the Aboriginal musical instrument called the didgeridoo. A wind instrument made ​​of wood length (can be more than 1 meter in length), in the inflatable at the end of it that is smaller than its lower end, and will issue a distinctive sound.