Art Symbols quiz

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Represents, in many variations, a wind break around a site, campfire, or meeting place.
A budgerigar though a variation is also used to represent other birds.
Typically represent Aboriginal body paint or markings.
A circular motif can represent water soakage and often bush foods or seeds.
Depicts people seated at a specific site, camp, or meeting place.

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Represents many meanings in Aboriginal Art though often a specific site, waterhole or meeting place.
An Emu is often portrayed with many footprints traversing the artwork.
A kangaroo; may also have a variation with a stroke between the footprint representing the tail.
A man accompanied by a spear and shield though variations of this may include different weapons such as a boomerang.
Footprints of a possum often found traversing the painting as it travels.

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Running between two sites, wavy lines that show running water, a crucial resource in the desert.
Represents people, both man and woman
Generally represent people travelling between the two places.
Sand hills in Aboriginal paintings are often depicted surrounding a specific site or waterhole.
A woman in the middle with a coolamon and digging stick on either side.

Here is a list of things you might consider before you begin to design your artwork. Click on the items that you want to include in your painting

What other elements would you like to portray?

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