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Painting with abstract design of patterned & black horizonta...
Pukumani pattern used on body and artefacts used in mortuary ritual. Five black horizontal bands with white outlines div...
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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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Bark painting 'Djeigung the Galbu Snake' by Mithinarri Gurru...
Plates 50 and 51 appear in Groger-Wurm under the heading 'The Galbu Snake'. 1985.0132.0061 is Plate 51. Explanation: Dj...
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Bark painting 'Tribal country of the Kangaroos & their mythi...
Tribal country of the Kangaroos & their mythical journey (catalogue worksheet for 1985.0173.0005 compiled by Dr Helen Gr...
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'Two possums climbing the tree of life with bird guardian at...
Title: 'Untitled' (Aboriginal Arts Board Collection card for 1991.0024.3631). Reverse of 1991.0024.3631 labelled with a...
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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 'A mam or namandi spirit in Margolidjban' by D...
A man or namandi spirit, Dreaming of the artist's uncle, in Margolidjban. Namandi are evil spirits, devil-devils, who ar...
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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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'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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'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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'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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Painting depicts Namarrkon, the Lightning Spirit and dancing...
Title: 'Painting depicts Namarrkon, the Lightning Spirit and dancing mimi spirits'.The lightning spirit is watching over...
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Bark painting 'Rainbow snake in the stone country of Gumadir...
This is the Rainbow Snake in the stone country of Gumadir, close to the top of Liverpool river [sic]. She is wearing a c...
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'Yingapungapu' by Narritjin Maymuru, Yirrkala, 1974,
In 'Ancestral Connections: Art and an Aboriginal System of knowledge' (pp245-274) anthropologist Howard Morphy discusses...
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Bark painting depicting the spirit Nawongberd and his four w...
Title: 'Painting depicts the spirit Nawongberd and his four wives'.
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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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'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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'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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'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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Bark painting 'Map of painter's travell [sic] by plane from ...
Description (map) of painter's travell [sic] by plane from Yirrkala to Sydney (collection list for AI 11)....
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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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'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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