ARTIST UNKNOWN, CENTRAL ARNHEM LAND

As above lot

All barks suffer varying degrees of lost pigmentation, visible in the reproduction, though remaining pigments appear fairly stable. There are minor splits and surface cracks in some areas of the surfaces, and all of the barks have adhesive residue from where they were previously mounted.
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Cf. For 1940s bark paitings featuring clan designs from Central and North East Arnhem Land, collected by Ronald Berndt, see Davies, S., Collected: 150 years of Aboriginal Art and Artifacts at the Macleay Museum, the University of Sydney, Sydney, 2002, pp.42-48, pl.44-50; and for contemporanious paintings from Milingimbi see Mountfird, C.P., Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, Vol.1: Art, Myth and Symbolism, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1956, pp.386-90, pl.125-127