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 MAIN PANELS OF WAVY LINES CROSS-HATCHED. SMALL BIRDS AND FISH, RED, YELLOW AND WHITE ON BLACK. REFER: MOUNTFORD: ARNHEM LAND, V. I, PL. 121(C), & PP. 376 & 378 SIMILAR BUT NOT OUR SPECIMEN. SACRED (NANGJIN INFORMANT) IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BOTTOM PANEL IS A BILLABONG CALLED MILUNGWERA NEAR BLUE MUD BAY, WITH TWO SHAGS CATCHING THE SMALL BLACK AND WHITE FISH (BILDU) AND SIX OTHER SHAGS BELOW. THE CROSS-HATCHED BAND IS WATER. THEY ARE ON A MUDDY SHORE. THE SINUOUS BANDS ARE WATER, THE NARROW RED AND WHITE TRANSVERSE BANDS ARE RIPPLES, AND THE LONG TRANSVERSE BAND IS A CREEK ON WHICH ARE A LARGE (ABOVE) AND A SMALL (BELOW) BILLABONGS WHICH ARE SHOWN IN THE DRY SEASON. THE DIFFERENT COLORS USED TO SHOW THE RIPPLES, ETC., IN CROSS-HATCHED WORK ARE TO MAKE THE DRAWING MORE ATTRACTIVE. AT THE BOTTOM ARE FOUR FROGS (GARUKMAN), AT THE RIGHT OF THEM ARE FOUR LOGS IN THE WATER ACROSS THE CREEK, BESIDE THE FROGS IS AN ANCESTRAL MAN LATJUNA, WHO CAME OUT OF A BILLABONG, AND HE IS THE HEAD MAN OF THE JIRITJA DRAWING. THE OTHER FIGURES IN THIS ROW ARE THREE CLOUDS (BALDA) WHICH ARE YELLOW AND APPEAR BEFORE THE WET SEASON."
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 178294
label: USNM Number
content: E387447-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 86 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 57.1 cm