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Title: Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route
Author: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/08/2010
Imprint: NATIONAL MUSEUM AUSTRALIA
Price: $59.00
Publishing status: Active
The Aboriginal people of Australias Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining and pastoral industries led to the surveying of a track along which cattle could be driven from Kimberley stations to markets in the south. This track became known as the Canning Stock Route.
In July and August 2007 nearly 70 artists, facilitated by Western Australian cultural organisation FORM, travelled up the stock route on a six-week return to Country. Yiwarra Kuju includes beautiful plates of the complete Canning Stock Route Collection and for the very first time tells the story of the stock routes impact, and the importance of the country around it, by Aboriginal voices and interpreted through Aboriginal eyes.
ISBN: 9781876944780
Dimension: 285mm X 235mm
Pages: 256