Yirrkala "Milky Way" Bark Painting,
Eastern Arnhem Land, Australia Byzantine Dimensions: Width: 4 3/4 inches

Dimensions: Width: 4 3/4 inches (12 cm)Provenance: Acquired by the Newark Museum in 1963

On loan to the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art

elongated ears

of highly-polished white marble

Yirrkala "Milky Way" Bark Painting, <br>Eastern Arnhem Land, Australia Byzantine Dimensions: Width: 4 3/4 inchesYirrkala "Milky Way" Bark Painting, Eastern Arnhem Land, Australia. ca. mid 20th century. Artist: Unknown For millennia, Yolu around Yirrkala in northern Australia have painted their clan designs on their bodies and ceremonial objects. These designs are not merely decorative, they are the sacred patterns of the ancestral land itself. Yolu describe them as "maayin" a term that encompasses both the sacred and the beautiful. Bark paintings are created