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: "CENTRAL PANEL CROSS-HATCHED, TWO END PANELS, DOTS. RED, WHITE AND YELLOW ON RED. SACRED (WONDJUK INFORMANT) A SUGARBAG DRAWING. NOS. 3 AND 5 (READING LEFT TO RIGHT) ARE THE WOMEN'S. NOS. 1, 2, AND 4 ARE THE MEN'S. AT THE BOTTOM THE DOTS REPRESENT THE BEES AND THE BLACK LINES ARE TREE-BRANCHES. AT THE TOP THE DOTS ARE THE BEES' DROPPINGS AND THE CROSS-HATCHED BAND IS THE ROOTS OF THE TREES. THE LINES OF BLACK WITH WHITE AND YELLOW DOTS ARE THE HARD WAX (MIANDI). THE CROSS-HATCHED MIDDLE IS THE SUGAR-BAG, THE BLACK BANDS ARE THE HARD WAX (NANGAI), AND THE BLACK BAND IS THE BRANCHES OF THE TREE." SEE CARD FOR DIAGRAM AND DRAWING.
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: E387453-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 104 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 33 cm