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Painting depicts rainbows seen during the N-W monsoon, and t...
Artist: Mawalan. Location: Yirrkala, NT. Untitled. Dated: 1965. The painting depicts rainbows seen during the N-W monsoo...
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Bark painting 'Birth of a Mimi' by Yirawala, mouth of the Li...
BIRTH OF A MIMI. The old man says the mimi's were little people a very long time ago and they turned into rock spirits...
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Djambidj bark no. 3
This painting combines images of Tuber (Wodbarridja or Balidja) and Water Goanna (Djerga). The crosshatching here repres...
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Painting depicts a writhing snake
1985.0259.0011 is one of 32 bark paintings and 30 artefacts that appear on Davidson's collection list under the heading ...
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'Djitama', bark painting, native plant species
Djitama (Yolngu name) Dioscorea bulbifera (Latin name) 'cheeky yam/round yam'(common name) This plant belongs to the Yir...
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'Fight between Crocodile-man and Stingray-man' by Narritjin ...
Fight between Crocodile-man and Stingray-man, each of them being helped by his ?people? and friends (collection list for...
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'The Eagle Hawk Men, Garagan and Gulmadja, and the Flying Fo...
Numbers refer to a line drawing of this painting in Groger-Wurm, 1973, p. 126. The Eagle-Hawk Men, Garagan and Gulmadja...
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'King fisher following the clouds' by Banapana Maymuru, 197...
This is one of the works that Banapana Maymuru produced in Canberra in1978, during the time that he and his father Narri...
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Bark painting depicting two people walking over a landscape
A note on file mentions that John Patrick O'Loughlin, the Catholic Bishop of Darwin (1949-85), gave this this painting t...
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'Dhanguniya', bark painting, native plant species
Dhanguniya (Yolngu name) Ipomoea graminea (Latin name) 'grass-leaf yam' (common name) This plant belongs to the Dhuwa mo...
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Bark painting 'Stingray dance performed in the Yirritja Narr...
1985.0259.0375 is one of 13 bark paintings and 1 artefact that appear on Davidson's collection list under the heading 'Y...
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Narra ceremony by Birrikidji Gumana, Yirrkala, 1967
1985.0259.0380 is one of 13 bark paintings and 1 artefact that appear on Davidson's collection list under the heading 'Y...
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'Creation Stories of the Manggalili Clan' by Narritjin Maymu...
The top panel of this painting shows the creation of Djarrakpi (Cape Shield) in northeast Arnhem Land by the Guwak (koel...
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'Buwakul', bark painting, native plant species
Buwakul (Yolngu name) Cayratia trifolia (Latin name) 'native grape' (Common name) This plant belongs to the Dhuwa moiety...
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'Wundan', bark painting, native plant species
Wundan (Yolngu name) Vitex glabrata (Latin name) 'black plum' (common name) This plant belongs to the Dhuwa moiety Cult...
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'Galayarr' on Rakay', bark painting, native species
Galayarr (Räkay with egrets) Räkay (Yolngu name) Eleocharis dulcis (Latin name) 'water chestnut' (common name) This p...
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'Galurra', bark painting, native plant species
Gälurra (Yolngu name) Mallotus nesophilus (Latin name) 'mallotus' (common name) This plant belongs to the Dhuwa moiety ...
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'Dilminyin', bark painting, native plant species
Dilminyin (Yolngu name) Ganophyllum falcatum (Latin name) 'scaly ash' (common name) This plant belongs to the Yirritja m...
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'Bundjungu', bark painting, native plant species
Bundjungu (Yolngu name) Capparis umbonata (Latin name) 'bush orange' (Common name) This plant belongs to the Yirritja mo...
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Bark painting 'The first firing of the bush at Caledon Bay' ...
THE FIRST FIRING OF THE BUSH AT CALEDON BAY. Pictured is Ngururi, head man of Caledon Bay in the Dreamtime. He has just...
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Bark painting depicting the log on which Barama floated to G...
1985.0259.0377 is one of 13 bark paintings and 1 artefact that appear on Davidson's collection list under the heading 'Y...
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Bark painting depicting Macassan parangs by Mawalan Marika, ...
1985.0259.0093 is one of three bark paintings that appear on Davidson's collection list under the heading 'Bark painting...
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'Dhanguniya', bark painting, native plant species
Dhanguniya (Yolngu name) Ipomoea graminea (Latin name) 'grass-leaf yam' (common name) This plant belongs to the Dhuwa mo...
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'Bundjungu', bark painting, native plant species
Bundjungu (Yolngu name) Capparis umbonata (Latin name) 'bush orange' (Common name) This plant belongs to the Yirritja mo...
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Bark painting depicting Njalyot the Rainbow Serpent by Peter...
"This painting represents Njalyot, the Rainbow serpent, who is said to be responsible for the creation of the Monsoon ra...
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