Wooden bowl with burnt engraved designs

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Type
Containers
Place
Ernabella, South Australia, Australia
Materials
Wood
Collection
Maruku Arts and Crafts collection no. 1
Accession number
1992.0089.0117

Description

Black and brown wooden bowl with a plain interior and the exterior covered with burnt engraved designs. The design includes two small dark shaded bands running from one side of the bowl to the other, ending with a recurve, and the rest is covered with concentric arcs and curved parallel lines.

Read live from the Museum's Collection API (12/11/2026, 5:42:14 am). Record last updated by the Museum 2025-02-18. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.