Bark Painting
name: label: Discipline
content: Anthropology
label: Region
content: Oceania Region (NZ, Australia, Samoa, Fiji, Micronesia, Melanesia)
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Notes
content: A bark painting depicting an unknown creature in white paint on a black background that fills almost the entire panel. Bark painting is an Australian Aboriginal art form and paintings are traditionally created for instructional and ceremonial functions. The figure in the painting is spotted over its entire body, with long limbs and a tail. There are several prominent protrusions, notably at the elbows and on top of the head. It is likely the art was created on a section of stringybark and the underside of the painting is unprocessed, showing the grain of the wood, but it cannot be confirmed for this specimen.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 1
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Dec 2023
place: label: Collecting Locality
content: Australia, Australia
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO400520-DSP
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
physicalDescription: label: Material
content: Wood, Paint