Paint Stone
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Collector
content: Frederick D. McCarthy
label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM LOGBOOK: HEMATITE (RED) PAINT STONE FROM ONGAURUKI R. ARNHEM LAND, AUSTRALIA. NOT CATALOGED. [For exhibit use.] NOTE: UNABLE TO VERIFY "ONGAURUKI R." AS A PLACE NAME.
label: Notes
content: This presumably came in with Accession 178294 (or 215944), collected by Frederick McCarthy (or Frank Setzler). See McCarthy, F. D., 1953. A circumcision ceremony and stone arrangement on Groote Eylandt. Records of the Australian Museum 23(3): 97–103, plate viii. [21 October 1953]. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.23.1953.623. McCarthy studied cave paintings at a site on Groote Eylandt that he references as Onguruku/Onguruka, and which in later years is called Angoroko/Angurugu, near the river of the same name. See also Clarke, Anne; Frederick, Ursula (June 2011), Thomas, Martin (ed.), "Making a Sea Change: Rock art, archaeology and the enduring legacy of Frederick McCarthy's research on Groote Eylandt", Exploring the Legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition, ANU Press, doi:10.22459/elale.06.2011.07
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Jul 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 25
place: label: Place
content: Groote Eylandt (not certain), Arnhem Land / Ongauruki R.? (Angurugu River ?), 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: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET12179-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pigment