Summary

This painting depicts reef fish with the coral reef represented by a band of rarrk or crosshatching. The fish at the top is milika, a catfish or butterfish or "diamond" fish and the small black tailed fish is gukuwal, a "Ring-tailed Surgeon". Both have a poisonous spike near the tail that is dangerous if it penetrates the skin. The large fish is called rrayaka and is "friendly" with gukuwal. It is a segment of a larger epic story relating to the ancestral homeland of the artist's clan, a place called Malwandra.

Physical Description

A single sheet of bark (Stringybark, Eucalytpus tetrodonta) painted with natural pigments.

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