Ten Canoes Essay
Ten Canoes Extended Response - Essay
The audience can learn a great deal about aboriginal culture and traditions. Discuss the reference to the Ten Canoes.
The film Ten Canoes directed by Rolf De Herr and Peter Djigirr, is a very unique story long ago before the white occupation during the tribal times in the Northern Territory, Australia. It was goose egg hunting season in the Arafura Swamp Region, when the ten men headed into the harvest bank for their canoe building. When Minygululu sees that the young Dayindi has taken interest in his youngest wife, he begins to tell a long ancestral story with many customs about aboriginal culture and traditions. At the start of the film, the unseen story teller, David Gulpilil tells us ‘It is not a story like your story, but it is a good story’. The story unfolds and much is told including beliefs, stories, legends and dream time with many links to marriage and wrong love.
In the traditional times of the indigenous land, there seemed to be an ancient system set up which favoured older and more powerful men to have all the wives. Since young men weren’t seen to be a “real man” yet because they still had a lot to learn, older men were always referred to as the powerful ones. If they had all the wives, this made them look capable of many things as well as keeping the community vibrant, healthy and able to survive in the olden times. This is why as seen in both the colour and black and white stories, Ridjimiraril and Minygululu both have all three wives.
Early in the black and white story, the men are pulling bark off the trees when the camera is focused on Dayindi and the older man Minygululu. Minygululu learns that young Dayindi has taken a fancy to his youngest wife. The tribal law was now in danger of being broken; as a result, Minygululu found the only way to resolve this was to tell Dayindi a long ancestral story about rules in the tribe. The wrong, the right, consequences and forbidden love. He goes into detail about
The audience can learn a great deal about aboriginal culture and traditions. Discuss the reference to the Ten Canoes.
The film Ten Canoes directed by Rolf De Herr and Peter Djigirr, is a very unique story long ago before the white occupation during the tribal times in the Northern Territory, Australia. It was goose egg hunting season in the Arafura Swamp Region, when the ten men headed into the harvest bank for their canoe building. When Minygululu sees that the young Dayindi has taken interest in his youngest wife, he begins to tell a long ancestral story with many customs about aboriginal culture and traditions. At the start of the film, the unseen story teller, David Gulpilil tells us ‘It is not a story like your story, but it is a good story’. The story unfolds and much is told including beliefs, stories, legends and dream time with many links to marriage and wrong love.
In the traditional times of the indigenous land, there seemed to be an ancient system set up which favoured older and more powerful men to have all the wives. Since young men weren’t seen to be a “real man” yet because they still had a lot to learn, older men were always referred to as the powerful ones. If they had all the wives, this made them look capable of many things as well as keeping the community vibrant, healthy and able to survive in the olden times. This is why as seen in both the colour and black and white stories, Ridjimiraril and Minygululu both have all three wives.
Early in the black and white story, the men are pulling bark off the trees when the camera is focused on Dayindi and the older man Minygululu. Minygululu learns that young Dayindi has taken a fancy to his youngest wife. The tribal law was now in danger of being broken; as a result, Minygululu found the only way to resolve this was to tell Dayindi a long ancestral story about rules in the tribe. The wrong, the right, consequences and forbidden love. He goes into detail about