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A Map of the Dream Time
Overview
This is M. Meggitt's “A Map of The Dream-Time” from Gadjari Among the Walbiri Aborigines of North Central Australia. At first glance, it is a jumbled mess of lines and words. However, after deeper examination, meaning can be found in this seeming random drawing.
Commentary
At first glance the drawing is very confusing. If this had not been given the title “A Map of the Dream-Time,” it may have never made sense. However, when you followed the jumbled lines while thinking of it as a map to a dream it begins to make sense. It is a confused, knotted mess because that is how dreams work. You flit from idea to the kext with no clear direction. This can be exhibited in the poem. Ideas intersect as they please. Along the solid and dotted line you can see ideas (like kangaroos, women, and dingos) i beleive this represents when a specific idea or image occured in this specific dream.
Context
Bibliography
Below is the citation for the article in which the map was originally published: Meggitt, M. J. “Gadjari among the Walbiri Aborigines of Central Australia.” Oceania, vol. 36, no. 3, 1966, pp. 173–213. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40329517.
