Warradjan Aboriginal Cultural Centre: To understand something of the connection Kakadu's Aboriginal owners have with this special part of the Top End, spend some time at the Warradjan Cultural Centre learning the stories that gave them their laws. Start with how the first people created the land, plants and animals. Aboriginal people developed this centre so they could share their culture. The Building has been styled in the shape of a pig nosed turtle, Warradjan, and is based on the theme, out land is our life. Allow at least an hour to view and appreciate this attraction.

Located in Cooinda, the Warradjan Aboriginal Cultural Centre’s architecture represents the story of World Heritage-listed Kakadu as told by the traditional owners. The circular design of the centre symbolises a warradjan, the pig-nosed turtle. The Centre was developed by the local Aboriginal people and interactive displays provide information on their culture and history.

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Warradjan centre:

Aboriginal rock art: Painting shows the presence of a rifle butt along with food animals. The rifle butt is from contact with white buffalo hunters in the 1800's.

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Aboriginal rock art featuring people. These are done the X ray style of painting.

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Aboriginal rock art featuring people. These are done the X ray style of painting.

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Different styles of rock art are represented at Obirr. There are the relatively simple red ochre paintings, unadorned by other colours, for example the Tasmanian tiger and the stick-like mimi figures. It is believed that these are the oldest paintings, X ray paintings, showing the internal structure of animals, is more recent style. There are excellent examples of the X ray style paintings at the main gallery. A third style is contact art. It marks the arrival of non Aboriginal people, and people portrayed with hands in their pockets and with axes and firearms. Rock art has diminished since the arrival of Europeans in the early 1800's. However the artistic tradition still flourishes and Aboriginal people now paint on bark, paper and canvas.

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Aboriginal rock art featuring local foods such as the prolific local fish .... the Barramundi. These are done the X ray style of painting.

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Another of the rock art galleries.

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