Aboriginal Carpet Snake

Head of carpet python morelia spilota showing heat sensitive pits along jaw line and forked tongue.

Aboriginal carpet snake. Possibly the most popular aboriginal loanwords are plants and animals which are now in everyday use. Furthermore four snakes may have served as inspiration for the rainbow serpent. Most specimens are olive green with pale dark edged blotches stripes or cross bands. Itis lists six the reptile database seven and the iucn eight.

Carpet snakes are extremely variable in colour and pattern. Morelia spilota commonly referred to as the carpet python or diamond python is a large snake of the family pythonidae found in australia new guinea indonesia and papua new guinea bismarck archipelago and the northern solomon islands. Most of the southern face was created by the battle between the liru poisonous snakes and the kunia carpet snakes. Acrylic on linen size.

The striped body paint design of the snake indicates it is painted up for ceremony. Carpet snake dreaming by clifford possum tjapaltjarri at the australian aboriginal art directory gallery. These include the scrub or amethystine python the taipan and the file snake each of which possesses a characteristic that was associated with the rainbow serpent however the most likely inspiration for the rainbow. In 1967 aboriginal australians could finally have an equal say in how their country.

Aunty oodgeroo s father taught all his children about aboriginal lore and values. Oodgeroo noonuccal sbs on demand video. The carpet snake is considered a form that the rainbow serpent can take by the walmadjari people. Clifford possum tjapaltjarri carpet snake dreaming.

Aboriginal beliefs connected with uluru ayer s rock kunia liru. Her totem was kabool the carpet snake. Many subspecies are described. Carpet snake or carpet python morelia spilota.

Clifford possum tjapaltjarri carpet snake dreaming. Many such words have also become loaned words in other languages beyond english while some are restricted to australian english. These words of australian aboriginal origin include some that are used frequently within australian english such as kangaroo and boomerang. Oodgeroo shared with her father the dreaming totem the carpet snake kabul and his sense of injustice.

The carpet snake dreaming story was passed on to billy stockman tjapaltjarri. Leaving school at the age of 13 oodgeroo worked as a domestic servant until 1939 when she volunteered for service in the australian women s army service.