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'Dhanggi', bark painting, native plant species
Dhanggi (Yolngu name) Planchonia careya (Latin name) 'cocky apple' (common name) This plant belongs to the Dhuwa moiety ...
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Bark painting 'The Dead Spirit' by Yirawala, Marrgulidban
'Mimi Spirit Figure' (Collection List for Bennett collection, p. 14)
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'Wanydjarrpu', bark painting, native plant species
Wanydjarrpu (Yolngu name) Austrodolichos errabundus (Scott) Verdc. (Latin name) Austrodolichos (Common name) This plant...
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Wulawarry ( freshwater eel tailed catfish) and Bipupan (file...
Garwun's homeland is in the middle of the vast Arafura Swamp in Central Arnhem Land, south of Ramingining. It is here th...
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Waterlily and Rock Snake by Doolie Nunggalawi
This painting shows the Dua moiety rock snake, mutjul in association with the yirritja moiety waterlily plant, bertparr....
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Bark painting depicting the ceremonial Wawilak ground by Daw...
1985.0259.0006 is one of 32 bark paintings and 30 artefacts that appear on Davidson's collection list under the heading ...
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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 '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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'Marruka and Rakay', bark painting, native plant species
The painting shows the new (yellow) and old (black) corms of the water chestnut. The old corms are called 'marruka' and ...
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'Mortuary Ceremony', by Narritjin Maymuru, 1978
The central portions of this painting depict the bones of one of the creator Ancestors of the Manggalili clan. When thi...
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'Banumburr', bark painting by Buranday Waynbarrnga
A typed paper label, probably from the Milingimbi Mission, is attached the back of the painting with sticky tape. It rea...
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Bark painting by Bardayal Nadjamerrek,'Two fish', Gunbalanya...
Title: 'Two Fish' (Aboriginal Arts Board Collection card for 1991.0024.3562). Bark painting depicting two species of fre...
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'Wakwak/Dhatum/Dirrpu/Dherran/Nindan', bark painting, native...
Wäkwak/Dhatam/Dirrpu/Dherrang/Nindan (Yolngu names) Nymphaea spp. (Latin name) 'waterlily''(common name) This plant bel...
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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 'Water lily bulbs' by Mithinarri Gurruwiwi, Yi...
1985.0259.0031 is one of 32 bark paintings and 30 artefacts that appear on Davidson's collection list under the heading ...
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'Gutjawutja', bark painting, native plant species
Gutjawutja (Yolngu name) Miliusa brahei (Latin name) 'raspberry-jam leaf'(common name) This plant belongs to the Dhuwa m...
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Sugarbag Dreaming by Jimmy Wululu
This is a Yirritja moiety design. The diamond shaped cells are the cells in a bee hive, the different colours showing ce...
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'Wakwak/Dhatum/Dirrpu/Dherran/Nindan', bark painting, native...
Wäkwak/Dhatam/Dirrpu/Dherrang/Nindan (Yolngu names) Nymphaea spp. (Latin name) 'waterlily' (common name) This plant bel...
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'Death and Mortuary Rites' by Mathaman Marika, Yirrkala, 196...
Numbers in brackets refer to a line drawing of this painting in Groger-Wurm, 1973, p. 110) When a Riradjingu person of ...
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'Sacred ceremonial ground Gununguwuy' by Narritjin Maymuru, ...
Title: 'Sacred ceremonial ground Gununguwuy' Explanation (the original is difficult to read in places) Artist is cerem...
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Bark painting depicting animals at a sacred site by Jimmy Na...
Title: ?Painting depicts animals at a sacred site?.
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Bark painting depicting six crabs by Tom Djawa, Milingimbi, ...
1985.0259.0324 is one of 11 bark paintings and 2 artefacts under the heading 'Yirritja Ngarra Ceremonies' on Davidson's ...
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