bark painting depicting a hunting party, unrecorded Australian Aboriginal artist

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unrecorded Australian Aboriginal artist, bark painting depicting a hunting party
unrecorded Australian Aboriginal artist, bark painting depicting a hunting party
unrecorded Australian Aboriginal artist
bark painting depicting a hunting party
late 1800s–1968
bark painting depicting a hunting party, late 1800s–1968
Where object was made: Australia
Material/technique: bark; paint
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 72 x 43 x 2.5 cm
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 28 3/8 x 16 15/16 x 1 0.984252 in
Credit line: Gift of James A. Sleeper
Accession number: 2007.3627
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Time/Frame," Jun-2008, Robert Fucci, Shuyun Ho, Lauren Kernes, Lara Kuykendall, Ellen C. Raimond, and Stephanie Teasley For Australian aboriginal people, ‘dreamtime’ or ‘the dreaming’ is objective reality-truth opposed to the subjective reality experienced in daily life. Although the translation is imperfect, the dreaming interweaves art, truth, and the ancestors. Events that occur in the dreaming do not, as one might expect, occur during sleep. Instead, events in the dreaming take place simultaneously in the past, present and future. This bark painting accesses events that are occurring in the dreaming, allowing initiates of different levels to understand and discover messages built into the imagery, seen by all, yet understood by few.