Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

Groups recording Bardi 'ilma' songs and performing 'Nyinydyi Nyinydyi' and 'Marinydyirnydyi' corroborees

Groups recording Bardi 'ilma' songs and performing 'Nyinydyi Nyinydyi' and 'Marinydyirnydyi' corroborees

Mamabulandyin, Broome, W.A., 7 March - 5 June 1983

Photographs taken at Mamabulandyin, Broome, at an elicitation session for the unrestricted corroboree called 'Nyinydyi nyinydyi.' The four performers were Paddy Sebastian, Balbarr Binya, Tommy Bayali, and Kennedy Vincent. Two unidentified male youths were also involved in the performance. Photographs taken at an elicitation session of songs from a number of Bardi ilma (corroborees) performed by Roy Wiggin are also included in this collection as well as Joe 'Butcher' Nangan's nurlu (corroboree) called Marinydyirinydyi.The performers in this last corroboree were Butcher Joe and Balbarr Binya