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 HORIZONTAL PANELS OF FISH, REPTILES, CRABS, SHELLS AND SEA BIRDS. SYMBOLIC - YELLOW AND WHITE ON RED. SEA SCENE JIRITJA (WAITJUNG INFORMANT) TOP PANEL: FEW BIRDS (BLACK SEA BIRDS WAITUNGU), 3 FISH (FLAT AND THIN, MAKANI) AND SQUIDS (GUNDERIERA). THE CROSS-HATCHED PANEL IS WATER. BELOW THIS PANEL ARE CORAL (SEE SMALL DRAWING ON CARD), OCTOPUS (MANDA), 3 AND 6 CRAYFISH (LOBSTERS FROM SEA), AND A GREENBACK TURTLE. BELOW THESE IS A CROSS-HATCHED PANEL ENCLOSING BAMBOO (LEFT), AND WOOD (BLACK), WHICH FLOAT IN TO THE BEACHES FROM THE SEA. BELOW ARE THREE MORE MAKANI FISH IN THE WATER."
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: E387462-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 89 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 41 cm