Painting, bark, Australia, Eastern Arnhem Land

Artist: Magani Wilingarr

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Item X 81351 Painting, bark. Mildjingi. Milingimbi, Eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. c.1950

Summary

This painting depicts rain falling represented by the dots stingray and gumurrurru, sea birds. The rarrk or crosshatching represents sandbanks at low tide on a small island off the mainland that is one of the ancestral homelands for the artist's clan.

Physical Description

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

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Object/Medium

Painting, bark
Maker

Makani Wilingarr
Cultural Groups

Mildjingi
Locality

Milingimbi, Eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
Date Produced

c.1950
Collector

Reverend Edgar A. Wells
Date Collected

1949 - 1959
Object Measurements

460 mm (Length), 185 mm (Width), 10 mm (Height)
Classification

Bunjilaka, Many nations, Animal creations
Date Made

1927-1985
Maker

Makani Wilingarr
Clan/Language Group

Djinang
Place Made

Milingimbi, Northern Territory, Australia
Indigenous Region

Arnhem, Australia
Keywords

Art
Collection Names

Edgar A. Wells 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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Item X 81351 Painting, bark. Mildjingi. Milingimbi, Eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. c.1950

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