Painting, bark, Alligator River, Western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia, 1913

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Item X 19897 Painting, bark. Alligator River, Western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. c.1913

Summary

The birds in this work are eaglehawks and the unusually reveal the inner structure of their outstretched wings. This work was amongst a suite of 64 bark paintings that reproduced images from the rock art galleries of western Arnhem Land. The paintings were commissioned for the museum by Paddy Cahill, the pastoralist at Oenpelli (now Gunbalanya) at the request of Baldwin Spencer.

Physical Description

A sheet of bark (Stringybark, Eucalyptus tetrodonta) painted with natural pigments. The image depicts two eaglehawks with outstretched wings.

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Object/Medium

Painting, bark
Maker

Unknown
Locality

Alligator River, Western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
Date Produced

c.1913
Collector

Patrick Cahill
Date Collected

1913
Object Measurements

1240 mm (Length), 570 mm (Width), 70 mm (Height)
Keywords

Art
Collection Names

Paddy Cahill Collection
Type of item

Object
Discipline

Anthropology
Category

First Peoples
Collecting Areas

Australian Indigenous - Northern Australia and Queensland and Torres Strait Islands

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