Australian Aboriginal Barks
Australian Aboriginal bark painting, natural ochre, charcoal, kaolin, natural binder on eucalyptus bark. "Crocodile Dreaming" Sylvia Burruwanga. #AGW950 ~ 45" x 21"
$2,000.00
Australian Aboriginal painting in natural ochre, charcoal and kaolin with natural binder on eucalyptus bark. "Crocodile Dreaming", Sylvia Burruwanga (Tiwi) of Millingimbi, NT. Acquired in 1990 from Aboriginal Artists Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory, which provided provenance..
The design portrays a pair of totemic crocodiles and a log over a background of sacred, clan-specific rarrk patterns. Barks are painted after being stripped from a tree trunk, flattened and scraped clean on the inside.
45" x 21" #AGW950
