Cultural significance of bowitgee

  • What is a traditional Aboriginal game?

    Parndo.
    This traditional Aboriginal ball game was played in South Australia near Adelaide (Kaurna nation).
    The parndo (ball) was made with a piece of opossum skin, flattish in shape and about the size of a. tennis ball.
    This is a kicking and hand passing game..

  • What is a traditional Aboriginal game?

    Parndo.
    This traditional Aboriginal ball game was played in South Australia near Adelaide (Kaurna nation).
    The parndo (ball) was made with a piece of opossum skin, flattish in shape and about the size of a. tennis ball.
    This is a kicking and hand passing game.Feb 21, 2019.

  • What is the historical significance of Buroinjin?

    This was a traditional game of some Aboriginal groups such as the Kabi Kabi in south Queensland.
    The game was played with a ball made of kangaroo skin, which was called a buroinjin.
    The ball, which was smaller than a football, was sewn with tendons and st■ with grass.
    The game was often played until sunset..

  • What is the history of the Bowitgee?

    The young men from parts of the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Northern Territory had a ball game they called bowitgee ('going about').
    The ball was made of paper bark tied firmly with string and about the size of a tennis ball.
    A good- natured yell of derision greeted the unlucky player who dropped the ball..

  • Men used to roll the stones as far as they could to show their strength, or roll them towards other stones or between markers to demonstrate their accuracy in bowling.
    This activity is named apwerte, which means 'stone' in the language of the Eastern Arrerente of central Australia.
  • The names edor, idor, ida or 'the running game' have all been used to refer to this game.
    The term edor has been commonly used in the north Queensland and Torres Strait regions.
    Edor is a goal-orientated, chasing-and-tagging game for a large group of players.
    A large group of players can play.
The young men from parts of the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Northern Territory had a ball game they called bowitgee ('going about'). The ball was made of paper 

How do you play bowitgee?

• Players pass the bowitgeeamong themselves while moving around in the grid area

The group counts the number of passes made in a designated period of time (for example, 60 seconds)

The bowitgeemust not be handed from player to player (passes must be at least 3 metres)

• Players can become quite proficient at keeping the bowitgeegoing

What are the rules for bowitgee 'bow-it-Gee'?

There are no definite rules for the game, which simply consists of throwing from one player to the other very quickly

Players • Six to eight players per grid/area bowitgee ‘bow-it-gee’ School YearS 7–9 School YearS 10–12 Post-school age Variations

What is a bowitgee?

bowitgee(‘going about’)

The ball was made of paper bark tied firmly with string and about the size of a tennis ball

A good- natured yell of derision greeted the unlucky player who dropped the ball

Short description This is a running-and-passing activity


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