Project Activities

P5070001
Documentation of Amurdak

In 2009 Iwaidja Inyman published a book of five stories in Amurdak, a sister language of Iwaidja no longer used as an everyday channel of communication. In 2010, for the first time, the Adjamarduku Outstation Knowledge Exchange hosted Robert Mailhammer who has taken over from the work originally done on the language by Robert Handelsmann in the 1990s. Robert described his experience in the Transient Blog. Read more

 

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Croker Island Artists

Under construction.

 

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Iwaidja Spatial Terminology

This project is the result of a collaboration between Cris Edmonds-Wathen, a PhD student at RMIT University and members of the Iwaidja Inyman team on Croker Island. Read more

 

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Indigenous Marine Knowledge

Under construction.

 

 

 

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Oral History

This is a new page which aims to present sample texts which together comprise an oral history of Northwestern Arnhem Land. The first story up, with accompanying subtitled video, is the story of the public hanging of Iwaidja speaker Warndiwarndi at Malay Bay in 1893. Read more