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'Marruka and Rakay', bark painting, native plant species
Räkay (Yolngu name) Eleocharis dulcis (Latin name) 'water chestnut' (common name) This plant belongs to the Dhuwa moiet...
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Bark painting 'Frog at Mirramina' by Mithinarri Gurruwiwi, Y...
1985.0259.0032 is one of 32 bark paintings and 30 artefacts that appear on Davidson's collection list under the heading ...
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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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Bark painting 'The Dead Spirit' by Yirawala, Marrgulidban
'Mimi Spirit Figure' (Collection List for Bennett collection, p. 14)
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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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'Gurrumu', bark painting, native plant species
Gurrumu (Yolngu name) Meiogyne cylindrocarpa (previously Polyaulax cylindrocarpa) (Latin name) 'fingersop' (common name)...
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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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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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'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 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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Bark painting 'Six Mimi Spirits (four males and two females)...
Six MIMI Spirits (four males and two females) walking (collection list).
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Painting depicting a crocodile, by David Milaybuma
This painting depicts the crocodile who lived in a lagoon on the land side of a mountain range south of Maningrida. He d...
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'Rawak', bark painting, dried native plant
Rawak (Yolngu term). This painting is not of a plant species. The word 'rawak' means dried up or burnt....
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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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Bark painting depicting the Wawilak Sisters story by Mathama...
1985.0259.0010 is one of 32 bark paintings and 30 artefacts that appear on Davidson's collection list under the heading ...
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'Rakay', bark painting, native plant species
Räkay (Yolngu name) Eleocharis dulcis (Latin name) 'water chestnut' (common name) This plant belongs to the Dhuwa moiet...
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Bark painting depicting a ceremonial trepang (beche de mer) ...
1985.0259.0379 is one of 13 bark paintings and 1 artefact that appear on Davidson's collection list under the heading 'Y...
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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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The Moon, Jumauria
The Moon, Jumauria In the early days of the world the moon, Jumauria, had no wife, and so was lonely. As he was travelli...