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: "FOUR PANELS OF SYMBOLIC FIGURES. STINGRAY, SHARK, CROSS-HATCHED AREAS AND BANDS RED, WHITE AND YELLOW ON RED. JIRITJA. (MOLUN INFORMANT) AT THE TOP ARE TWO ROCKS, THE HAUNT OF THE HAWKSBILL TURTLES, BESIDE THE TOP ROCK, THEN A LONG SAILFISH (KUNDERUNGA), BELOW THEM AND TO RIGHT ARE CLOUDS, A VERTICAL ROW OF SQUIDS, CROSS-HATCHED PANELS OF SEA WATER, THEN SQUIDS AND CLOUDS ON LEFT. BOTTOM RIGHT IS A DEVIL RAY MALARA IN THE SEA IN A BORDER OF CLOUDS. BOTTOM LEFT IS A WHALE (MUROKUNJA) WITH CROSS-HATCHING FOR THE WAVES CAUSED AS IT SWIMS: HE CAN SMELL THE SPEW OF PEOPLE IN CANOES AND THEN HE SWIMS UP AND EATS IT. DREAMING-PLACE NANTJAKA AT CAPE ARNHEM FOR ALL ANIMALS SHOWN."
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: E387465-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 97.8 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 41.9 cm