Arrernte Didgeridoo, Kuranda, Australia
(below)

Demonstrated below is the triangulation of Human, Physical, and Sacred. The numbering and placement of each main subject is not indicative of relative status of importance to the Aboriginal people.

Yarramunua Boomerangs, depicting from top to bottom:

Kangaroo (on sides) and Human, Physical, and Spiritual rings (center)

Masculine (left) and Feminine ceremonial headdresses (right) and Human Physical, and Spiritual rings (center)

Dingo (center) and ceremonial headdresses

To analyze the Dreaming is to deconstruct the Aboriginal people, who, when fully revealed, are merely the spiritual Dream in physical form.

"Hunting Ground," by Charlie Caldwell Jambana

Portraits of Aborigines, Kim Philipsen, artist

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Christine I. Keller
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