Bark painting

Museum number:
11-38378
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2173
Description:
Bark painting; yellow ochre ground; elongated human holding spear; 6 fish; triangular net; designs mostly filled in with ochre and white cross-hatching; Back marked: “Mijau Mijau t 1-0-0; net, spear and fish, Croker Island”
Donor:
Elizabeth Colson and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Croker Island, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory
Culture or time period:
Iwaidja / Yiwayja / Yiwadya people (N39)
Collector:
Bruce D. Lawes
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bark paintings
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1966
Department:
Oceania
Dimensions:
length 40 centimeters and width 31 centimeters
Loans:
S1966-1967 #51: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (January 5, 1967–January 20, 1967)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Bark painting, accession number 11-38378, described as Bark painting; yellow ochre ground; elongated human holding spear; 6 fish; triangular net; designs mostly filled in with ochre and white cross-hatching; Back marked: “Mijau Mijau t 1-0-0; net, spear and fish, Croker Island”Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Bark painting, accession number 11-38378, described as Bark painting; yellow ochre ground; elongated human holding spear; 6 fish; triangular net; designs mostly filled in with ochre and white cross-hatching; Back marked: “Mijau Mijau t 1-0-0; net, spear and fish, Croker Island”Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Bark painting, accession number 11-38378, described as Bark painting; yellow ochre ground; elongated human holding spear; 6 fish; triangular net; designs mostly filled in with ochre and white cross-hatching; Back marked: “Mijau Mijau t 1-0-0; net, spear and fish, Croker Island”

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