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: "MYTHOLOGICAL DEITIES. PREDOMINANTLY WHITE AND RED CROSS HATCHING ON BLACK. SACRED (WONDJUK INFORMANT) THE ANCESTRAL MAN BUNBULAMA IS CARRYING A BALER SHELL ON HIS HEAD. HE IS SURROUNDED BY PANELS OF MUD (CROSS-HATCHED) ABOVE WHICH ARE SHORT-NOSED PORPOISES (BUKUJIRLUNGA) AND TREVALLY NEAR PANELS (CROSS-HATCHED) REPRESENTING SANDBANKS. THE MIDDLE PANEL AT THE BOTTOM CONTAINS THREE CONCH SHELLS, MUD (CROSS-HATCHED PANELS) AT LOW TIDE, AND ONE BALER SHELL. ON THE LEFT IS THE SEA BOTTOM OF MUD SHOWING PEARL-OYSTERS (RED), MANGROVE OYSTERS (YELLOW), AND STARFISH." SEE CARD FOR DRAWINGS.
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
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: E387445-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 110.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 49.5 cm