Summary
The painting depicts the travels of two ancestors that took the form of dogs seen here. The dots are fine rain falling and the rarrk or crosshatching is freshwater running across the ground. The wavy line at one end is the flat salt plain where freshwater and saltwater meet "on the side nearest the forest".
Physical Description
A single sheet of bark (Stringybark, Eucalytpus tetrodonta) painted with natural pigments.
More Information
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Object/Medium
Painting, bark
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Maker
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Locality
Milingimbi, Eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
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Date Collected
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Object Measurements
480 mm (Length), 275 mm (Width), 20 mm (Height)
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Collecting Areas
Australian Indigenous - Northern Australia and Queensland and Torres Strait Islands