aboriginal

(adjective)

First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous.

Related Terms

Examples of aboriginal in the following topics:

  • Aboriginal Australian Art

    • Aboriginal Australian art can be traced back at least 30,000 years and is one of the longest continuously practiced artistic traditions in the world.
    • Aboriginal art in Australia can be traced back at least 30,000 years; the rock art of Australian Aborigines is one of the longest continuously practiced artistic traditions in the world.
    • Other Aboriginal artists have incorporated western mediums into their work, such as Emily Kngwarreye, Rover Thomas and Freddy Timms.
    • Aboriginal art in Australia can be traced back at least 30,000 years.
    • Differentiate between the periods and regional styles of Aboriginal Australian rock paintings

  • Colonial Australian Art

    • The visual arts have a long history in Australia, from ancient Aboriginal rock paintings to colonial landscapes to contemporary movements of today.
    • John Lewin and Harriet and Helena Scott were among the first professional natural-history illustrators, while artists such as Augustus Earle focused on ethnographic portraiture of Aboriginal Australians.

  • Pacific Arts Festival

    • Taiwan was allowed to send a delegation of 80 performers and artists, most of whom were Taiwanese aborigines, to the Festival of Pacific Arts for the first time in 2008.

  • Political Art: Race and Ethnicity in the 1990s

    • Contemporary Indigenous Australian art (also known as Contemporary Aboriginal Australian art) is the modern art work produced by Indigenous Australians.
    • It is generally regarded as beginning with a painting movement in 1971 that spawned widespread interest across rural and remote Aboriginal Australia in creating art, while contemporary Indigenous art of a different nature also emerged in urban centres; together they have become central to Australian art.

  • The Rise of Pacific Cultures

    • The first, an Australoid people and the ancestors of modern day Melanesians and Australian Aboriginals, came to New Guinea and Australia, with the Melanesians expanding as far as the northern Solomon Islands by 38,000 BCE.

  • The New World

    • Indigenous peoples are commonly known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, which include First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.