Aboriginal bark painting

Oceania tradition · 3 examples · indicative market tier: Under $500 (entry level & living craft)

Bark painting is an Australian Aboriginal art form, involving painting on the interior of a strip of tree bark. While examples of painted bark shelters were found in the south-eastern states (then colonies) of Tasmania, Victoria, and New South Wales in the 19th century, as well as later on bark shelters in northern Australia, it is now typically only found as a continuing form of artistic expression in Arnhem Land and other regions in the Top End of Australia, including parts of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Bark paintings were traditionally produced (especially among the Yolngu Wikipedia →

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