  Song and dance are a traditional means of strengthening culture and passing
knowledge to successive generations in the Torres Strait of northeastern
Australia. Dances incorporate a range of apparatuses to enhance the
performance, such as dance machines (Zamiyakal) and headdresses (Dhari). The
dances, songs, headdresses and dance machines work together to transfer
important knowledge about subsistence survival, social structure, and cultural
continuity. This paper explores how celestial phenomena inspire and inform
music and dance.
