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: "SEATED HUMAN FIGURE, FEMALE, CROSS-HATCHED BODY, THE REST RED, OUTLINED WITH YELLOW LINES, WITH TWO CROSS-HATCHED OBJECTS LEADING FROM EACH ARM TO FEET." Formerly on exhibit in NHB Hall 8, case 16. Exhibit label stated: "The Lightning-Being. Lives in a waterhole. The bands between the hands and feet represent lightning."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Feb 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Oenpelli (Gunbalanya), 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: E387569-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 69 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 43 cm