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: "THREE DEATH ADDERS. ONE BLACK WITH WHITE DOTS, THE OTHER TWO HAVING RED, WHITE AND YELLOW LINES CROSS-HATCHED ON A BLACK BODY. ALL THREE ON A RED WASH. A SACRED SNAKE DRAWING. (WONDJUK INFORMANT). THE (BLACK PAINTED) SNAKE IS GUNINGBILLA WHO LIVES AT TJUTJORWI BETWEEN CALEDON AND BLUE MUD BAYS. THE OTHER TWO SNAKES ARE DALARA (ROCK PYTHON OF THE YEMERLINDI) WHO LIVE IN THE DREAMING-PLACE CALLED GOROKULLA AT ARNHEM BAY. (MOUNTFORD HAS RECORDED THE LONG LEGEND.)"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Feb 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Yirrkala, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 178294
label: USNM Number
content: E387441-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 122 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 51 cm