Paint Powder
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Collector
content: Frederick D. McCarthy
label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM LOGBOOK: LIME (WHITE) PAINT POWDER, AMALIPA PT. N. AUSTRALIA. NOT CAT., FOR EXHIBIT USE. NOTE: UNABLE TO VERIFY "AMALIPA POINT" AS A PLACE NAME.--C BEAUCHAMP 10/2002.
label: Notes
content: This presumably came in with Accession 178294 (or 215944), collected by Frederick McCarthy (or Frank Setzler). See McCarthy, F. D., 1953. A circumcision ceremony and stone arrangement on Groote Eylandt. Records of the Australian Museum 23(3): 97–103, plate viii. [21 October 1953]. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.23.1953.623. On p. 101 McCarthy notes Amalipa as "... an old ceremonial ground on the shore of Bartalumba Bay [Bartolombo Basin], Groote Eylandt ..." McCarthy studied cave paintings at the Jundaruna site near Amalipa. See also Clarke, Anne; Frederick, Ursula (June 2011), Thomas, Martin (ed.), "Making a Sea Change: Rock art, archaeology and the enduring legacy of Frederick McCarthy's research on Groote Eylandt", Exploring the Legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition, ANU Press, doi:10.22459/elale.06.2011.07
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Jul 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Groote Eylandt (not certain) / Amalipa Pt. (not certain), Arnhem Land (not certain), North Australia / Northern Territory (not certain), 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: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET12178-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pigment