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PHOTOS FROM AUSTRALIA
 LITTLE HAWK AUSTRALIAN TOUR
"Cultures In Harmony"
July 24 - September 17, 2006
(Sydney, Darwin, Yolgnu, Melbourne, Brisbane)
GARMA FESTIVAL- August 4-8, 2006
The Garma Festival is an intimate, spectacular celebration of cultural traditions and practices. It takes place annually at Gulkula, Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Amhem Land is where the Yolngu (Aboriginal) culture has survived for more than 40,000 years old and is amongst the oldest living cultures on earth.
Please Note: All photos by Little Hawk's wife, Beverly.
School children performing for guests at Garma.
Little Hawk admiring Yolgnu art at an Indigenous Museum near Garma. The Yolngu use hollow logs in traditional burial rituals. They are also an important "canvas" for their artwork.
Special permission was given to film at Garma for the 2007 documentary "Three Wise Men" which features (left to right) Jack Thompson (the great Australian actor and Yolgnu activist), Mandawuy Yunupingu (A tribal elder, Garma founder and famous Indigenous musician), and Little Hawk. The film was directed by Melanie Hogan who is the director of the acclaimed 2006 aboriginal film, "Kanyini".
Mandawuy Yunupingu (at left) is wearing a bone necklace made by Grand Chief Silver Eagle of the Métis Eastern Tribal Indian Society of Maine [Little Hawk's people]. Jack Thompson and Little Hawk are listening on to Mandawuys words of wisdom.
At Garma, Little Hawk performed with Galpu clan elder, Djalu' Gurruwiwi, who has been a master of the yidaki for many years. His instruments are highly respected all around the world. The sound of the yidaki at Gulkula is a call to all peoples to come together in unity. It is said that the sound of the yidaki is the sound of Mother Earth.
Gulumbu Yunupingu, [lady in red] is an internationally acclaimed Indigenous painter whose work is presently at Musee Du Quai Branly, Paris, France. Little Hawk viewed one of her paintings in a museum in Northern Territory, and he "...saw depth in time like the silence that you feel in a prayer when you are praying, and all is quiet around you." It happened that her granddaughter, Akiyo Tanaka was present while Little Hawk stood before the painting and played a flute. Akiyo invited Little Hawk to play flutes for her grandmother. Gulumbu Yunupingu's work is food for the soul.
The four grandmothers were mourning the death of a close friend when Little Hawk was asked by Akiyo to play flute for her grandmother. Little Hawk placed a flute in front of each grandmother and proceeded to play a special prayer of healing for each one.
Jack Thompson, Greg Reeves (Australian tour organizer, guitarist, and Film Producer), and Little Hawk being filmed by the campfire at Garma.
LITTLE HAWK PHOTO LIBRARY
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