Professor Howard Morphy is Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University, Canberra. His books include Journey to the Crocodile’s Nest and Ancestral Connections, Art and an Aboriginal System of Knowledge.
For thousands of years Australian Aborigines have been making art. A manifestation of the creative forces of the Dreamtime, art is also a means of expressing individual and group identity. Howard Morphy surveys the...