This project is with conjunction of the Macleay Museum at the University of Sydney to digitise and repatriate, through digital means, a series of bark paintings from the Northern Territory. In addition to the barks a series of notes from anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt and Elder, Wandjuk Marika, explain the cultural significance behind these paintings.
The entire dataset contains 68 barks, 369 audio files and 68 bark detail forms.
All physical bark paintings are stored at the Macleay Museum archives at the University of Sydney.
Access: Some conditional, some closed. Some men-only material. Please contact us for further information on how to access this dataset.
Dataset ID:
BERN2010