Aboriginal paintings of the Wolfe Creek Crater; track of the rainbow serpent.1931707952 Aboriginal paintings of the Wolfe Creek Crater Wolfe Creek is a meteorite impact crater (astrobleme) in Western Australia.[1],[2] It is accessed via the Tanami Road 105 km south of the town of Halls Creek. The crater is central to the Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater National Park. ; track of the rainbow serpent The Rainbow Serpent (also known as the Rainbow Snake) is a major mythological being for Aboriginal people across Australia, although the creation stories associated with it are best known from northern Australia. . Sanday, Peggy Reeves. U. Penn/Mus. of Archaeo & Anth 2007 164 pages $39.95 Hardcover ND1101 The walled meteor crater For meteorite-created craters in general, see . “Barringer Crater” redirects here. For the crater on the Moon, see Barringer (lunar crater). Meteor Crater , a mile wide and some 160 feet deep, sits on the northeastern edge of the Great Sandy Desert Great Sandy Desert Wasteland, northern Western Australia. It extends from Eighty Mile Beach on the Indian Ocean eastward into the Northern Territory and from the Kimberley Downs south to the Tropic of Capricorn and the Gibson Desert. in Western Australia. Visitors to the crater since her father became its first white discoverer in 1947 were told that the big hole held no significance for Aboriginal people, but Sanday (anthropology, U. of Pennsylvania) conducted her own research. Here she describes the Aboriginal connection to the place they call Kandimalal through Dreaming painting and stories produced by today's Traditional Owners and Custodians of the crater. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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