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: "TWO PANELS, ONE WITH A REPTILE AND TWO DIGGING STICKS, THE OTHER CROSS-HATCHED WAVY BANDS, YELLOW, RED AND WHITE LINES ON RED. REFER: MOUNTFORD: ARNHEM LAND, V. I, PL. 118(C), & P. 371, SIMILAR BUT NOT OUR SPECIMEN. SACRED (WONDJUK INFORMANT) THE TOP PANEL SHOWS TWO SACRED STICKS CALLED KAINING (YELLOW). THEY ARE USED BY THE JIRITJA PEOPLE WHO ARE CRAWLING ALONG AT GURUNGA, THE DREAMING PLACE AND SOURCE OF YELLOW AND RED OCHRE AT CALEDON BAY, BEFORE THEY DIG IT OUT. THE SCALLOPED LINES ARE THE YELLOW OCHRE AND THE RED ONES THE RED OCHRE. THE GOANNA (BI-EH) LIVES HERE."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Oct 2021
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: E387456-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 97 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 42.55 cm