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 DUGONG IN YELLOW, OUTLINED WITH WHITE LINES SURROUNDED BY CROSS-HATCHED LINES. SACRED JIRITJA (WONDJUK INFORMANT) THESE TWO BIG DUGONGS (MERINGJUNGU) ARE A MALE AND FEMALE COPULATING AT GONGERA, NEAR CAPE WILBERFORCE. THE CROSS-HATCHED PANEL ABOVE THEIR HEAD REPRESENTS THE BUBBLES AS THEY BLOW UP THE WATER (IN BREATHING). THE CROSS-HATCHED PANEL BETWEEN THEM IS THE GRASS ON WHICH THEY FEED, AND BELOW THEM IT REPRESENTS THE RIPPLES ON THE WATER AND THE BUBBLES RISING AS THEY MOVE SLOWLY ALONG FEEDING ON THE GRASS AT THE BOTTOM."
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: E387448-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 80.64 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 36 cm