Sentence examples for an aboriginal work from inspiring English sources

An archaeologist said Monday that he had found the oldest piece of rock art in Australia and one of the oldest in the world: an Aboriginal work created 28,000 years ago in an Outback cave.

An archaeologist says he found the oldest piece of rock art in Australia and one of the oldest in the world: an Aboriginal work created 28,000 years ago in an Outback cave.

In 1997 one of his paintings, "Water Dreaming at Kalipinya," which he had sold in 1972 for $75, changed hands at a Sotheby's auction in Melbourne for $263,145, setting a record for any Aboriginal work of art.

Thirty years ago Aboriginal work was hardly recognized as art.

To emphasize the close ties of Aboriginal work with the natural world, he has arranged the exhibition to reflect the six different environments in the area: mangrove swamps, forests, water holes, jungles, beaches and plains.

As that interpretive note on Mr. Tjapaltjarri's painting suggests, there is a major dimension to Aboriginal works that will be lost on most viewers: what they meant and represented to the artist.

I have worked as an Aboriginal worker within the child protection system in north west NSW since 2001.

Their representative, the Aboriginal Working Group, which is seeking a majority stake in a pipeline, has hired the aboriginal banking unit of the Bank of Montreal to secure job guarantees, job training, service contracts and rent payments from pipeline companies.

Until then, Aboriginal works had always been grouped with ethnographic curios.

The visual correspondence between Aboriginal works and modern art was all the more striking, given that artists like Thomas had never studied Western painting.

Danish vocal group Ars Nova are known for mixing things up, performing music with ancient Jewish texts, Indian ragas and aboriginal works.