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Bark painting 'Map of painter's travell [sic] by plane from Yirrkala to Sydney' by Mawalan Marika, Yirrkala, 1963

1985.0118.0006

Bark painting 'Map of painter's travell [sic] by plane from Yirrkala to Sydney' by Mawalan Marika, Yirrkala, 1963

Bark painting 'Map of painter's travell [sic] by plane from Yirrkala to Sydney' by Mawalan Marika, Yirrkala, 1963

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Description

Description (map) of painter's travell [sic] by plane from Yirrkala to Sydney (collection list for AI 11).

Physical description

A bark painting worked with ochres on bark. It depicts solid rectangles in various sizes linked by oblique black lines. There is a broad yellow jagged line at one narrow end of the bark with a plain red section beside this. There is an infill pattern between the rectangles and black lines of red and white crosshatching.

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Bark paintings
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Dr Karel Kupka collection
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Dimensions

W 913mm x H 433mm x D 30mm

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