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Object Number
998-12-70/5746
Display Title
Bark painting
Descriptions
Object Description
Bark painting. Whitened background with design of one large fish. Fish has rose/brown body covered with diamond pattern formed of parallel lines in white, black and mustard. Center stripe of rose/brown edged in white, with single row of black spots. Open mouth; black eye with mustard center; front fin of rose/brown with two rows of black spots; rear fins and tail black. Bark has curled significantly; split at upper right hand corner.
Inventory Description
Painting, pigment on bark, curved, image of fish, black, white, yellow, linear d
Classification
- Painting
Department
Ethnographic
Date
ca. 1975
Artist
Barrgadubu
Culture
- Gunwinggu
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Australia
/
Northern Territory
/
<County>
/
Darwin
Materials
Pigment on Bark
Dimensions
Overall: 35.2 x 90.2 x 0.3 cm (13 7/8 x 35 1/2 x 1/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
On back, "ARTIST: BARRGADUBU/ GROUP: GUNWINGGU/ NAMANGOL-BARRAMUNDI" "46/00-I/1"; 998-12-70/5746; ARTIST; BARRGADUBU / GROUP: GUNWIN##U. / NAMANGOL - BARRAMUNDI /
Credit Line
Gift of Lindy Sutton, 1998
Provenance
Collector
Ellen Lindy Sutton
(1975 - 4/22/98)
Donor
Ellen Lindy Sutton
(1975 - 4/22/98)
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