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: "MALAY BOAT, FIVE MEN WITH SAIL. PAINTED BY MINIMINI. RED, WHITE AND YELLOW ON BLACK. LOANED TO THE EMBASSY OF AUSTRALIA 2/19/1975." Per Dr. Sally K. May, Department of Archaeology, Flinders University, 2007, the boat depicted is a Macassan/Makassan wooden sailing vessel or prau.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 6 in May, S. K., McKinnon, J. F. and Raupp, J. T. (2009), Boats on Bark: an Analysis of Groote Eylandt Aboriginal Bark‐Paintings featuring Macassan Praus from the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition, Northern Territory, Australia. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 38: 369-385. doi:10.1111/j.1095-9270.2009.00230.x
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Dec 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Groote Eylandt / Umbakumba, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Aboriginal Australian
label: Culture
content: Anindilyakwa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 178294
label: USNM Number
content: E387377-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 89.53 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 49.5 cm