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: "THIS AND ALL OTHER BARK PAINTINGS ARE PAINTED ON STRINGY BARK, EUCALYPTUS - TETRADONTA. MOST OF THE YIRRKALA BARK PAINTINGS ARE WHITE KAOLIN AND YELLOW OCHRE ON A RED OCHRE BACKGROUND. TWO PANELS OF WAVY LINES WITH CROSS-HATCHED AREAS. THE SACRED DREAMING-PLACE CALLED NALARWU OF PAPER-BARK TREES NEAR CALEDON BAY. THE VERTICAL BANDS ARE THE TREES AND THE DOTS BETWEEN THE LOZENGES ARE TEH PELLETS OF SAP ON WHICH STINGLESS BEES FEED. (WONDJUK INFORMANT). REFER: MOUNTFORD: ARNHEM LAND, V. I PL. 98(C) & P. 307 SIMILAR BUT NOT OUR SPECIMEN. LOANED TO THE EMBASSY OF AUSTRALIA 2/19/75, RETURNED 6-6-1975."
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: E387440-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 102 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 43 cm