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'Murrnyi / Murrtjumun', bark painting, native plant species
Murrnyi'/Murrtjumun (Yolngu name) Grewia retusifolia (Latin name) 'emu berry' (common name) This plant belongs to the Dh...
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Bark painting 'Head of Animal (Kangaroo)' by Yuwunyuwun Marr...
Title: 'Head of Animal' (Aboriginal Arts Board Collection card for 1991.0024.3692).
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Painting depicts a serpent coiled around white eggs
This painting is very sacred to the artist and he calls it his ?dreaming? and will not let aboriginal women or children ...
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Bark painting 'The Wagilag Story' by Dawidi Djulwadak, Milin...
1985.0132.0003 was painted and interpreted by Dawidi. The numbers in brackets refer to a line drawing of the painting in...
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'Two Nyapililngu ancestral women', by Narritjin Maymuru, Yir...
1985.0259.0402 is one of 28 bark paintings and 3 artefacts that appear on Davidson's collection list under the heading '...
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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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'Rakay ga Gurrumba Mapu', bark painting, native plant specie...
The title 'Rakay ga Gurrumba Mapu' means the plant rakay (water chestnut) with magpie goose eggs. Räkay (Yolngu name) ...
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Bark painting 'Djiegung, the Galpu python' by Mithinarri Gur...
1985.0259.0013 is one of 32 bark paintings and 30 artefacts that appear on Davidson's collection list under the heading ...
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'Djulukun', bark painting, native plant species
Djulukun (Yolngu name) Marsdenia viridiflora (Latin name) 'bush banana' (common name) This plant belongs to the Dhuwa mo...
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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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Bark painting 'Three Mimi men, spirits of rocks, and turtle'...
Three MIMI men, spirits of rocks, and turtle. The first MIMI, who found the turtle, is waiting for his companions and ur...
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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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'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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Bark painting ' 'Cursing the Lovers' A painting of retributi...
'Cursing the Lovers' A painting of retribution (Collection List for Bennett collection, p. 9).
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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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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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'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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'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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'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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Bark painting of two figures relating to the Maraian ceremon...
Title: 'Bark painting of two figures relating to the Maraian ceremony'.
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'Wakwak/Dhatum/Dirrpu/Dherran/Nindan'', Bark painting, nativ...
Wäkwak/Dhatam/Dirrpu/Dherrang/Nindan (Yolngu names) Nymphaea spp. (Latin name) 'waterlily' (common name) This plant bel...
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