Summary
This painting depicts flying foxes resting in the trees during daytime in the paperbark forests of the Arafura Swamp. The flying foxes are full after feeding on berries and fruit during the night. The small lizards in the centre live under stones and eat the berries and fruit dropped by the flying foxes as they feed.
Physical Description
A single sheet of bark (Stringybark, Eucalytpus tetrodonta) painted with natural pigments.
More Information
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
Australian Indigenous - Northern Australia and Queensland and Torres Strait Islands
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Maker
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Date Produced
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Collector
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Date Collected
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Locality
Milingimbi, Eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
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Cultural Groups
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Object/Medium
Painting, bark
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Category
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Discipline
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Type of item
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Fully Extended
520 mm (Length), 250 mm (Width), 28 mm (Height)
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Exhibition Collection Management
30 mm (Length), 245 mm (Width), 515 mm (Height)
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