Rainbow Snake.
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- Type
- Bark paintings
- Date
- 1968
- Place
- Beswick, Northern Territory, Australia
- Materials
- Bark, Pigment, Wood
- Collection
- Dr Helen M Wurm collection no. 5
- Accession number
- 1985.0153.0010
Description
Ochres on bark. Snake, horizontal & straight with narrow tail & whiskers like a cat. Top half red with black & white crosshatching, bottom half yellow with sloping parallel black lines. Red background. Artist: Johnny Panmkal (Tribe: Ngalkbun, Moiety: Jir).
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