Instrument, wind, Australia, Desert East

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Item X 70200 Ulpere | Didjeridu. Western Arrernte. Hermannsburg, Desert East, Northern Territory, Australia

Summary

This instrument is called an Ulpere (an Arrernte word meaning'hollow branch'). Arrernte man Walter Smith once claimed that the Ulpere was used to announce the opening of a well-known dance that was shared between Aboriginal groups in Central Australia, theTjitjingalla corroboree. The missionary and ethnographer Carl Strehlow, who lived amongst the Western Arrernte between 1984 and 1922 described a similar trumpet (called a Karakara) which was decorated with a red painted strawflower and used in a public corroboree performances. Strehlow says it was 'used like a trumpet' and made a hollow, deep sound.

Local Name

Ulpere

Physical Description

Short wind instrument (didjeridu) decorated with feathers.

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Object/Medium

Didjeridu
Maker

Unrecorded
Cultural Groups

Western Arrernte
Locality

Hermannsburg, Desert East, Northern Territory, Australia
Collector

W F. Hanks
Date Collected

1963
Object Measurements

570 mm (Length), 90 mm (Width), 70 mm (Height)
Classification

Bunjilaka, Many nations, Celebrating culture
Carl F. Strehlow
Maker

Not Recorded
Clan/Language Group

Arrernte
Place Made

Nthareye (Hermannsburg), Northern Territory, Australia
Indigenous Region

Desert, Australia
Keywords

Performing Arts
Type of item

Object
Discipline

Anthropology
Category

First Peoples
Collecting Areas

Central and Western and South Australian Ethnographic

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