"Grave-Post"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 11 Oct 1974
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Price J. Gittinger
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "HEAVY SECTION OF HOLLOW LOG MOST OF OUTSIDE PAINTED IN CROSS HATCHING, WITH ONE LARGE LIZARD-LIKE FIGURE. THOUGH CALLED A GRAVE POST IT APPEARS MORE LIKE A DRUM (OTHERS IN MUSEUM COLLECTION - R. ELDER). LOANED TO RENWICK CELEBRATIONS 12/17/1981, RETURNED 1983. CELEBRATIONS LABEL: THE FASHIONING OF GRAVE POSTS ON CROCKER ISLAND IS THE WORK OF CARVERS OF THE DUA MOIETY, A GROUP TO WHICH HALF THE TRIBE BELONGS. THE LIZARD FIGURE MAY REPRESENT TJUNDA, A SACRED FIGURE OF THE DUA MOIETY. ACCORDING TO MYTH, TJUNDA WAS SEEN BY THE CULT HERO DJUNKGAO AND HIS SISTER MADALAIT AT JELANGBARA, NORTH OF PORT BRADSHAW."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Apr 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Croker Island, 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: 313315
label: USNM Number
content: E416450-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Grave Post