| ISBN |
9780522877953 |
| 9780522879148 |
| Author |
Lui-Chivizhe, Leah (author) |
| Title |
Masked histories : turtle shell masks and Torres Strait Islander people / Leah Lui-Chivizhe. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Carlton, Victoria : Miegunyah Press, 2022. |
| ©2022. |
| Description |
xxii, 215 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), map, portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Second numbered series of Miegunyah volumes 206 |
| Bibliography |
Contains bibliographical references, glossary, and index. |
| Summary |
"The stories Islanders once told, sang and danced continue to tell us about our past and are vital elements of my telling of this history. Across the Torres Strait, myths, stories, ceremony, places and objects were principla keepers of Islander history. By the early twentieth century, the large turtle shell masks that connected Islanders to their seas, to the living and the deceased, that held the stories of their making and their uses in ceremony were all but gone ... Using Islanders' myths and stories and the turtle shell masks themselves, I reanimate the masks with their Islander histories of meaning and purpose." -- Back cover. |
| Subjects |
Art |
| Masks |
| Torres Strait Islanders |
| Torres Strait Islanders -- Social life and customs |
| Torres Strait Islanders -- Art |
| Masks -- Queensland -- Torres Strait Islands |
| Art -- Queensland -- Torres Strait Islands |
| Stories and motifs |
| Dance - Ceremonial |
| Costume and clothing - Masks |
| Material culture - Turtle / tortoise shell objects and decorations |
| Queensland -- Torres Strait Islands |
| Torres Strait Islands (Qld TSI SC54, SC55-05) |
| Series |
Miegunyah volumes second series 206. |
| Call number |
2022.112 |
