ABSTRACT
In the north of Western Australia, three tribes of Aboriginal people were moved from their traditional homelands in the Kimberley and herded into a community called Mowanjum, meaning, ironically, 'settled at last'. The images on the rocks are real, and one treats them with the same respect that should be accorded to humans. The lack of differentiation between the real and the non-real, and between what is natural and what is cultural, stems from the even more fundamental lack of differentiation between the material and the spiritual, or the concrete as opposed to the numinous, in the minds of both the Aborigines and the Bushmen. In addition to the realisation, there is undoubted and indisputable evidence that the 'S' concept was, and still is, strongly held by Aboriginal people in Australia: there, it was undoubtedly a powerful motivation in the production of rock art.
