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: "SYMBOLIC FIGURES. YELLOW AN WHITE ON RED. JIRITJA (NANGJIN INFORMANT) TOP PANEL OF CROSS-HATCHING REPRESENTS SALT WATER. IN THE MIDDLE PANEL IS A DEVIL-RAY AND SQUIDS. ON THE RIGHT IS A STAR (JULPAN), A WOMAN'S STAR, AND TWO (BLACK) FISH KORPOR FROM THE SEA. ALL CROSS-HATCHED BANDS REPRESENT WATER BREAKING ON THE SHORE. BELOW ARE CLOUDS FROM TWO OF WHICH RAIN IS FALLING, AND AT THIS TIME THE STINGRAYS PRODUCE THEIR YOUNG IN THE MANGROVES, IN THE WET SEASON. THE VERTICAL CROSS-HATCHED BANDS ARE WATER. THE BOTTOM LEFT PANEL CONSISTS OF CROCODILE (BA:RU) STINGRAY, HAWKSBILL TURTLE AND TURTLE ROCKS. THIS IS A DREAMING PLACE MARAWIMA AT THE MOUTH OF THE ARNHEM RIVER."
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: E387464-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 102 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 47.63 cm