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Wandjina, n. Austral.|wɒnˈdʒiːnə|
Also Wondjina.
[ad. Aboriginal (Ungarinyin, W. Austral.) wanjina.]
(A member of) an Aboriginal spirit people depicted in rock paintings of the Kimberley Ranges in Western Australia. Freq. attrib.
[1930Oceania I. 259, I shall describe the paintings... A large man..depicted horizontally along the rock-face. He has eyes and nose but no mouth... Figures of this kind are called wondjina in the language.] 1938A. P. Elkin Austral. Aborigines 179 Each gallery includes at least one painting of a personal being known as Wondjina, associated with the sky, rain, rainbow, the rainbow-serpent, [etc.]. 1958F. D. McCarthy Austral. Aboriginal Rock Art 53 The huge Wandjina..paintings of the Kimberleys. 1965Austral. Encycl. I. 49/2 The Wandjina's travels belong to the Ungud or ‘Dreaming’ period..but, being Ungud, they are timeless, and their potency remains. 1988Antiquity LXII. 692/2 Ancestral beings collectively named Wandjina.., after creative journeys which left the land and all living matter in its present form, painted themselves in a rock-shelter in the clan estate. |