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Figure3092/5

Carved wooden fish with oval eyes. On the sides of the fish's body are other aquatic figures carved into the surface, with diagonal lines between the figures. On the bottom of the fish is a flattened base. The face of the fish is red-brown, with a dark brown line along the spine of the fish. The tail is dark brown, as well as the aquatic figures.

Culture
Australian
Material
teak wood
Made in
Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure3092/4

A wooden carving of a bird painted with patterning along its back, across the front of its torso, and on its face. It has a long narrow neck, a smooth and rounded body, and two long parallel legs which protrude from the body beneath the rounded point of the tail. The patterning on its back and across its torso is made up of cross-hatched yellow ochre, white, and red-brown lines. The bird's head is also painted red-brown, with white eyes and details.

Culture
Australian
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure3092/3

A wooden carving of a bird painted with detailed patterning. It has a long narrow neck, a smooth and rounded body, and two parallel legs which protrude from the body beneath the triangular point of the tail. The painting on both sides of the figure are the same.

Culture
Australian
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure3092/2

Figure carved from a single piece of wood, decorated with intricate painted patterns on all sides. In lines and dots, colours are black, yellow ochre, red-brown, and white. Mid-way down the arm on either side is a band of small orange and light-green feathers wrapped with plant fibre. The figure’s arms and legs end in flat surfaces, with no hands or feet. The head and neck are long and narrow, face flat with a small nose and angular chin. Round eyes are small, and mouth is shallowly carved.

Culture
Australian
Material
paint, wood, feather and plant fibre
Made in
Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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A Myth of the Ancestral Being, Barama2940/1

Bark painting on a roughly rectangular piece of slightly warped reddish-brown bark. The top is entirely covered with the painted image in yellow, black and white on a dark red ground. The image is divided into six panels. The upper centre panel shows two black possums on either side of the trunk of a tree. The four corner panels each show a pair of vertical yellow and black possums. The bottom centre panel shows two women facing a tree trunk. Above the upper panels is a horizontal panel of wavy lines. The upper and lower ends each finish with a short black band. The reverse is plain bark.

Culture
Australian: Manggalilji
Made in
Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bark Painting733/1

Bark painting. Image shows three two-dimensional animals, in brown, red, black and white. Animals have elongated, elliptically shaped bodies that taper to a diamond shaped head. Each has two red dots for eyes, a long, straight, pointed tail, and red, yellow and white striped bodies. Bark panel is rectangular and warped.

Culture
Australian
Made in
Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubC1664

Vertical bands of zigzag designs on lower portion of handle. Head of club is a round knotty knob. The letters a.k.t. Are carved on handle.

Culture
Australian
Material
wood
Made in
Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bark PaintingC1698

Bark painting. Top right panel: jungle fowl with a lizard in its beak; nest of eggs underneath. Opposite panel: frog with two snakes; underneath panel shows two frogs, male and female. The red and black headed frogs are of one variety. Those with the smaller white heads are a different species. Inscription on back in white chalk.

Culture
Australian: Gobaboino
Made in
Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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