Banumbirr: Morning Star Poles from Arnhem Land, NT, Australia

Banumbirr is a term used by the Yolngu people of eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia, to refer to the complex of concepts and objects that relate to the Morning Star (the planetary body Venus). It belongs to the domain of the Dhuwa moiety - one of two descent groups among the Yolngu people. The moiety system is also a high order classification principle applied to the entire Yolngu multiverse, where every natural phenomenon - from stars, winds and ocean currents to parcels of la