Bark Painting
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 May 1949
name: label: Donor Name
content: American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TWO OPPOSSUMS [sic, should be possums] SURROUNDED BY WAVY CROSS-HATCHED BANDS. PREDOMINANTLY WHITE AND YELLOW, RED ON BLACK. SACRED JIRITJA (NANGJIN INFORMANT) THE BLACK CENTRAL STRIP WITH BROKEN LINES IS A LIVING HOLLOW TREE IN THE DREAM-TIME, AND THE TWO BROKEN LINES ARE THE OPOSSUM'S [sic, should be possum's] TRACK. THE WHITE DOTS NEAR THE OPOSSUM'S [sic, should be possum's] MOUTH ARE THE PLUMS, WHICH THEY EAT, FROM THE TREE. THE TWO BROKEN LINES ON THE RIGHT ARE THE MARKS OF THE OPOSSUM'S [sic, should be possum's] CLAWS GOING UP THE TREE, AND THE OTHER TWO OF IT DESCENDING. ON THE RIGHT ARE HIS TRACKS ON THE GROUND, AND ON THE LEFT THE TRACKS OF A BEACH CRAB (GUNJA). THE CRAB FOLLOWED THE OPOSSUM [sic, should be possum] TO THE TREE. THE DREAMING PLACE IS DJERRAKMI AT CAPE STEWART." SEE CARD FOR DRAWING.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Oct 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Yirrkala, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 178294
label: USNM Number
content: E387449-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 69 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 36.2 cm