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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2024

Laura Rademaker ,
Sally K. May ,
Gabriel Maralngurra  and
Joakim Goldhahn
Laura Rademaker
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
Sally K. May
Affiliation:
University of Adelaide
Gabriel Maralngurra
Affiliation:
Injalak Arts
Joakim Goldhahn
Affiliation:
University of Adelaide

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Aboriginal Rock Art and the Telling of History , pp. 177 - 184
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Aboriginal History
the journal, 3
Allen, Harry, 88
Alligator River Land Claim, 89
Altamira, 19, 29, 105
AmaTola
heterogeneous raider-pastoralists in the Underberg region, 50
Anbangbang Main Gallery, 103, 105, 111, 112, 114, 115, 116, 150
Anderson, Kimberley, 140
on archiving, 134
Anglican Church Missionary Society
and Oenpelli mission, 59
Anlarrh, 104, 110
archaeology vs history, 1
Arthur
Narlim’s child, 87
Assmann, Aleida, 115, 117
Attenborough, David, 103
Awunbarna, 43, 71, 91. See Mt Borradaile
Axtell, James
on writing vs oral cultures, 77
Baby Dreaming, 17, 121, 122, 144
Badari, Graham
on Quilp, 56, 60
Badmardi
Aboriginal clan, 90, 103, 130, 144
Balanda, 64, 65, 95, 97, 122, 143, 153. See Glossary
Baldwin Spencer, 25, 57, 58, 100
on Reckitt’s Blue, 25
Ballard, Chris
on historicities, 118
Balmana, Peggy
Narlim’s daughter, 89
Bantu people, 50
Barengi Gadjin Land Council, 5
Berndt, Cathrine
on horses in Aboriginal kinship system, 61
Berndt, Ronald M.
on horses in Aboriginal kinship system, 61
Bininj. See Glossary
Biyalwanga, Linda, 113, 128
Blawgur, Julie, 128, 130
Blyth, Goldie
on Quilp, 57, 59
Brady, Liam M.
on rock art and history, 6
on Yanyuwa rock art, 139
Bredarör on Kivik, 9
Briet, Suzanne, 94
Brock’s Creek, 91
Brothman, Brien
on memory as a process, 116
Brunius, Carl George, 79
Bruzzone, Felipe, 106
Buckland, Michael K., 94
buffalo, 131, 145
and kinship system, 133
Bulinara
Wardaman clan massacred by Paddy Cahill, 54
Burrungkuy, 42, 103, 110, 115, 150. See former Nourlangie area in Kakadu National Park
Cadell River, 121
Cahill, Paddy, 30, 53, 57, 58, 59, 65, 82, 90, 98
and Baldwin Spencer, 57, 58
and Marakarra, 81, 82
and Narlim, 83, 97
and Quilp, 46, 61, 65
and the massacre of Wardaman people, 54
and the massacres of Aboriginal people, 53, 54
buffalo shooter, 46
Marakarra trying to kill the Cahill family, 82
on missions, 85
on Quilp, 53
on Quilp as an artist, 58
on shooting Aboriginal people, 54
the buffalo shooter, 55, 56, 57
Cahill, Thomas
and the massacres of Aboriginal people, 54
Paddy Cahill’s son, 85
Cahill’s Crossing, 144
Canari, David, 130
Carroll, Peter
on Quilp, 59
cattle brand. See STO
Cerro Colorado, 106
Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 135
Chaloupka, George, 34, 61, 129
on Narlim’s rock art, 92
on Quilp’s horse painting, 52, 53
on Reckitt’s Blue, 25
on the chronology of rock art, 34
Chauvet, 29, 105
Chong, Carol
on rock art and history, 4
Church Missionary Society, 83, 93
Cobourg Peninsula, 132
Cole, Tom, 49
Contact rock art, 38–40, 48–51, 60–63, 91
Cook, Captain James, 48, 65
and the beginning of Australian history, 2
Cook, Terry
on archive and memory, 107
Cosquer, 29, 105
Croker Island, 15
deep history, 3
Delamere, 60
Wardaman Country, 53
Dharawal
Aboriginal clan, 5
Dickens, Charles, 46
The Old Curiosity Shop, 46
Djang, 16, 31, 32, 42, 133, 142. See Glossary
Djarrng, 91, 127, 131, 133
Djenjdjulung, Frank Namongodj, 81, 85
Djeragagal, Lily
Narlim’s wife, 87
Djimongurr, 14, 103, 109, 110, 117
Djulirri, 73, 75, 76, 91
Djungkay, 32, 33, 121, 130. See Glossary
its role in the person’s mother’s Country, 32
relation to mother’s Country and Djungkay, 33
Dobrez, Livio, 12
on rock art as an interdisciplinary field of research, 12
Doohan, Kim, 137
Dreaming, 160
Duwa, 30, 133, 142. See Glossary
Dyer, Alf, 83
on Napym, 87
on Quilp, 59
on Quilp and his skill withhorses, 59
Dyer, Mary, 83
Dynamic Figures, 18, 36
rock art style, 18
Edwards, Robert, 129
on Miargu’s rock painting, 130
Faulkhead, Shannon
on Country as an Aboriginal archive, 7
First Nation People
and their relationship to horses
North America, 50
South Africa, 50
Foote, Kenneth
on archive and collective memory, 108
Fowles, Severin, 7
on rock art as counter-archives, 7, 51, 63
Gadjerriwoong
Aboriginal clan, 114
Garde, Murray, 130
Garijala, Rebecka
on Quilp, 59
Garrabumba, 87
Goody, Jack
on Western writing as magic, 84
on writing vs oral cultures, 77
Goulburn Island, 15
Gunbalanya, 11, 14, 15, 16, 30, 34, 43, 46, 56, 65, 66, 80, 98, 131, 144
Gunn, Robert
on rock art as a part of art history, 12
Gurindji, 138
Halbwachs, Maurice, 107
hand stencil, 41
Harding, Walter, 50
Harris, Richard
on Quilp, 59
historicism, 135
historicities, 118
history vs archaeology, 1
history vs prehistory, 1
Hokari, Minoru, 138
Holocene, 36
horses
and San (South Africa), 50
horses and colonial violence, 53
Icelandic sagas, 9
Ilyatjari, Nganyinytia, 137
Ingardbarry, Paddy, 59
Injalak Arts, 30, 43, 66
Injalak Hill, 15, 17
Janke, Terri, 7, 151
on archives, 7
Jeffrey Lee, 42, 114
Jimerson, Randall
on archive as repository memory, 107
Julie Narndal Gumurdul, 81
Kahlin Compound, 88
Kakadu National Park, 17, 29, 30, 43, 71, 88, 103, 109, 126, 143, 144, 150
Kamminga, Johan, 88
Kapalga, 25, 81, 88
Keep River, 62, 114
Ketelaar, Eric
on archive, 3
kinship system, 30
Kolig, Erich
on myth-consciousness and historical-consciousness, 108
on writing vs oral cultures, 77
Koongarra, 110, 126, 130, 144
Koperiki, 90
Kudjekbinj, 14, 121
Aboriginal clan, 143, 144
Kulumput
on massacre of Wardaman people, 54
Kumoken, 26, 65, 144. See Glossary
Kunbidbok, 41, 66. See Glossary
Kunbok, 122. See Glossary
Kunwinjku, 41, 57, 80, 133, 150. See Glossary
language in west Arnhem Land, 30
Lake Finniss
buffalo shooting camp, 56
Lamilami, Leonard
on rock art and history, 4
Lamilami, Patrick
on rock art and history, 4, 5
Lamilami, R.
on rock art and history, 4
Lascaux, 29, 105
leprosy, 56, 87, 90
Lester, Peter
on written text as material culture, 8
letter stick, 76, 95, 96, 97
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
on history vs myths, 118
on people without writing and archives, 108
on writing vs oral cultures, 77
Los Mellizos, 106
Lowish, Susan
on rock art as part of art history, 12
Ludwig Leichhardt, 48
Macassans, 7
Mako, 65. See Glossary
Mallery, Garrick
and picture writing, 79
Mandem, 144. See Glossary
Mandjurlngunj
Aboriginal clan, 80, 90, 144
Mangob, Peggy Balmana
Narlim’s child, 87
Manlarrh, 96. See Glossary
Māori, 136
Marakarra, Nipper, 56, 59, 65, 66, 80, 81, 82, 85, 89, 93
Maralngurra, Josie, 96, 105, 109, 110, 117, 121
Mardku. See Glossary
Marika, Wandjuk, 137
Marks, Ron
on rock art and history, 5
Maung
Aboriginal clan, 4
McGrath, Ann, 49
on Aboriginal people and their relation to horses, 49
McKemmish, Sue, 134
McKeown, Frank
on Quilp’s horse, 52
McLean, Ian
on rock art as the residue of ritual, 112
McNiven, Ian, 108
Melville Island, 132
Mengerrdji
Aboriginal clan, 80, 81
Miargu, Billy, 113, 126, 128, 129, 130, 131, 139
Mignolo, Walter
on writing and colonialsim, 77
on writing vs oral cultures, 77
Mikginj
rock art site, 49
Millar, Laura
on archives and collective memory, 108
Mimih, 8, 17, 33, 43, 66. See Glossary
Mirarr
Aboriginal clan, 90, 144
Mirriuwung
Aboriginal clan, 62, 114
Montgomery, Lindsay, 7
on rock art as counter-archives, 51, 63
Morphy, Frances
on rock art, history and memory, 118
Morphy, Howard, 6
on Aboriginal temporalities, 138
on rock art and history, 8
on rock art as a tangible record, 6
on rock art as an interdisciplinary research field, 12
on rock art, history, and memory, 118
on the recursive power of rock art, 115, 116
Mt Borradaile, 43, 145. See Awunbarna
Mt Bundy Station, 59, 60
Muckederry
and the massacre of Wardaman people, 54
Mugurula, Maggie, 59, 60
Mulvaney, John D.
on Quilp as an artist, 58
on Quilp as Paddy Cahill’s son, 54
Mulvaney, Ken
on rock art and history, 62
on rock art as an affectual media, 114
Museums Victoria in Melbourne, 58
Nababuk, 71
Nabamdjorle, Paddy, 121
Nabarlek, 65, 91
Nabarlek uranium mine, 52
Nabokov, Peter, 137
Nadambala, 56, 60, 65
Nadjamerrek, Lofty Bardayal
as a mentor and teacher, 11, 18, 144
on water buffalo and Ngalyod, 145
on Wubarr, 130
painting a horse, 48
Nadjongorle, Djawida, 121
Nadulmi, 129, 130. See Glossary
Namadbara, Paddy Compass, 15
Namandali, 104, 110
Namarnkol, 41, 42. See Glossary
Namarnyik, Jimmy Kalarriya
on Wubarr, 130
Namarrkon, 17, 97, 116. See Glossary
and the coming and going of season, 17
Nanguluwurr, xi, 39, 105, 110
Napym, 71, 87, 88, 90, 114
Narlim, 13, 71, 74, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 114
learning to read and write, 85
on leaving Oenpelli, 88
painting at Ubirr, 89
Nawaran, 65. See Glossary
Naworo, 120, 121, 122. See Glossary
Nayombolmi, 24, 103, 110
and rock art as an intergenerational media, 116
Neidjie, Bill, 60, 89, 114
on Narlim, 89
on Narlim’s rock art, 114
on Quilp, 56, 60
New Zealand, 136
Ngalamin, 80, 93
Ngalyod, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145. See Glossary
Nganabarru. See Glossary
and Ngalyod, 145
Nganaparru, 41
Nganjmirra, Jill
on Quilp, 56
Ngarradjku. See Glossary
Niaux, 29, 105
Nora, Pierre, 108, 117, 118
on history and collective memory, 107
Norman, Dinah, 139
Nourlangie, 103. See Burrungkuy
also known as Burrungkuy, 144
Oenpelli, 30, 53, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 65, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89. See Gunbalanya
Oenpelli Mission, 59
Ojibway, 106
Ong, Walter J.
on writing vs oral cultures, 77, 78
Palmerston, 91
Pine Creek, 91
Porr, Martin, 137
prehistory vs history, 1
Quilp, 13, 24, 46, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 86, 97, 98
a massacre survivor, 54
as rock art artist, 46
the artist, 57
the race horse, 46
Quilp’s painted horse, 46
Ranganathan, Shiyali Ramamrita, 94
Rarrk
cross-hatching, 41
Recalde, Andrea, 106
Reckitt’s Blue, 25, 26, 39, 40, 43
Rifkin, Mark, 136
and settler time, 136
rock art, 29
and history, 4, 5, 6
and its recursive power, 138
and memory, 113
and picture writing, 79
as a classroom and blackboard, 111
as a counter-archive, 46, 60
as an intergenerational media, 11, 18, 111, 114, 121
as archives, 6, 7
as memory houses, 8
chronology
Dynamic Figures tradition, 36
Large Naturalistic Animal tradition, 36
Maliwawa Figures tradition, 36
Northern Running Figures tradition, 36
Painted Hands tradition, 38
X-ray tradition, 36
Yam Figures tradition, 36
definition, 29
hand stencils as signature, 112
history and rock art, 9
horse as a rock art motif, 48
recent rock art traditions, 38
Rodrigo de Triana, Rodrigo
and the start of American history, 2
Roney, Ruby, 53
on buffalo shooting, 56
on Quilp, 53, 60
Rudder, John
on Yolngu mythologised history, 109
Rumsey, Alan, 94, 95, 118, 119
Russ Jones’s Timber Camp, 110
Russell, Lynette, 108
on archives, 4
Ruuska, Alex, 106
Schrire, Carmel. See White, Carmel
on Quilp’s horse, 53
Schwartz, Joan M.
on archive and memory, 107
settler time, 136
Smith, Fred, 81
Spencer Range, 131
Spencer, Baldwin, 61
STO
cattle brand, 89
Sullivan, Joanne, 128, 130
Swain, Tony, 108
on history and Aboriginal concept of time, 109
Tacitus, Cornelius
and his work Germania, 9
Taçon, Paul S.C.
on rock art and history, 6
on Two Leg Rock, 130
The Burarrwana collective of Yolngu, 137
The New Indian History, 3
Two Leg Rock, 126, 127, 128, 130, 139
Ubirr, 89
Uluru Statement of the Heart, 138
United States, 3
Urry, James
on history as a Western conception, 108
van Toorn, Penny, 93
on writing vs oral cultures, 78
Victoria River region, 53
Wakaman
Aboriginal clan, 4
Walkarr rock-shelter, 71
Warburton, Carl, 49, 54
on Aboriginal people and their relationship to writing, 85
on Quilp, 53, 58
Wardaman, 46, 53, 54
Aboriginal clan group, 46
Warddjak
Aboriginal clan, 103, 144
Warlkarr rock-shelter, 91
Watkins, Joe
on archaeology and understanding the past, 3
Wave Hill
Wardaman Country, 54
Wellington Range, 73, 75, 76, 91
West Arnhem Land, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 20, 25, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 40, 49, 53, 56, 61, 66, 85, 91, 106, 116, 126, 127, 140, 143, 152
White, Carmel, 88. See Schirie, Carmel
Williams, Shane
on rock art and history, 5
Wrigglesworth, Melanie
on rock art and memory, 113
Xalweni rock-shelter
San rock art with horses, 50
X-ray rock art style
a late Holocene rock art tradition, 33
Yanyuwa
Aboriginal clan, 139
Yarnmarlu, Dolly, 56, 80, 81, 89, 90, 100, 113, 114
Yilari Balalaman. See Quilp
Yingarna, 141. See Glossary
Yirridjdja, 14, 30, 133, 142. See Glossary
Yolngu, 109, 137, 138
Yulidjirri, Thompson, 53
as a mentor and teacher, 11, 15, 111, 144

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