Wise Elder’s project has been added to the featured project section of the site.
The government of Australia recently granted permission to the Woodside Company’s new Liquid Natural Gas “Pluto” Plant, for removal of 941 rock art engravings, despite the fact that the site was recently listed on the Australian National Heritage List. For more information you can visit websites for Dampier Rock Art www.dampierrockart.net and the Friends of Australian Rock Art, www.standupfortheburrup.com
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The tribal people of Jharkhand, India have just celebrated their harvest festival, Sohrai. It is a festival associated with cattle and the deity of cattle. The horns and hoofs of cattle are annointed with oil diluted with sindoor (tumeric mixed with lime to produce a vibrant red pigment) and earthenware lamps are lighted in cattle sheds and in kitchen gardens. An important feature of the festival is the painting of the walls of houses with traditional mot
