Painting depicts a large tortoise - by Mick Kubarkku

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Type: Bark paintings
Date: January 1974 - February 1974
Place: Manbulgardi Outstation, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
Materials: Bark
Collection: Maningrida Arts and Crafts 04/06/1974 collection
Accession number: 1985.0245.0030

Description

Large Tortoise. The shell decorated with cross hatching and divided into six segments by black lines.

Part of a collection of 39 bark paintings created by Aboriginal artists in January and February 1974 at outstations near Maningrida. The Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies purchased the collection inearly 1974 from Maningrida Arts and Crafts through Dan Gillespie, the arts advisor at Maningrida. The collection was later transferred to the National Museum of Australia.

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