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: "FOUR PANELS. PORPOISE, RAIN, TURTLES IN DREAM TIME; YELLOW AND WHITE ON RED. JIRITJA. (WONDJUK INFORMANT) TOP RIGHT IS A GREENBACK TURTLE IN THE SEA. TOP LEFT ARE TWO SEAGULLS (NGURULA), TWO PORPOISES (INJAPANA), A CONCH SHELL, THEN CROSS-HATCHING FOR TREPANG, AND BELOW THESE IS A WILLY-WILLY WIND (BOJUNGA), AND A PORPOISE EATING A SMALL FISH. BOTTOM LEFT ARE TWO MOONFISH (MILIKA) IN THE WATER (SEE CARD FOR SMALL DRAWING), TWO GREENBACK TURTLES EATING SEA URCHINS IN THE DISTURBED WATER. BOTTOM RIGHT IS A GREENBACK TURTLE IN THE WATER."
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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 178294
label: USNM Number
content: E387469-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 84 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 51 cm