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Three dancers 2:36

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Making fire 0:27

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Shake-a-leg dance on the beach 1:04

Torres Strait Islanders (1898)

A national treasure: the oldest film made of Torres Strait Islanders and of Aboriginal people. This film deserves national and international cultural icon status.

Length: 4 minutes 31 seconds

Featured in the Outback on Screen collection

Source:

National Film and Sound Archive

NFSA title number: 8879

See also:

Historical, Education

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Titles with similar tags:

The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait, Pearls and Savages, Message Stick – Child Artists of Carrolup, Darnley Islanders Pay Tribute, Bush Tucker is Everywhere