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: "CANOE PADDLES AND FOOTPRINTS REPRESENTING BROTHER AND SISTER TALKING TO MALAY TREPANGERS ON THE ISLAND WITHIN PORT BRADSHAW CALLED WAPILINA. WHITE, RED AND YELLOW ON BLACK. SACRED (WONDJUK INFORMANT) IN THE LOWER PANEL DJUNKAU AND HIS SISTER MERDALEG PADDLING IN THEIR CANOE ON PORT BRADSHAW. THEY SAW MALAY PEOPLE (BAI-INNI) AND THEIR PRAUS NEAR THE ISLAND OF WAPILINA, AND THE FOOTPRINTS ARE THOSE OF THE MALAYS WORKING TREPANG. DJUNKAU ASKED THE MALAYS TO GO AWAY SO THAT HE COULD PUT HIS DRAWING ON THE ISLAND. THE RED IS FROM THE FIRE AND THE BLACK THE ASHES IN THE COOKING OF TREPANG."
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: E387452-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 66 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 41.9 cm