Bag for collecting honey, Yirrkala |
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| Title : | Bag for collecting honey, Yirrkala |
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| Creator : | Mountford, Charles P. | ||
| Source : | PRG 1218/17/20 | ||
| Date of creation : | 1948 | ||
| Format : | Diary | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Copyright : | The Library received cultural clearance from the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre, Yirrkala to display this image. Reproduction rights are owned by State Library of South Australia. |
| Description : |
Entry from the journal of C.P. Mountford kept during the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. 26 August, 1948. Photographs, drawings and description of a woven bag from Yirrkala used for collecting honey. Fibrecraft is prevalent in Arnhem Land where archaeological evidence suggests that women have been weaving for thousands of years. Loosely woven bags are used for carrying plants and other foodstuffs whilst the more tightly woven bags could transport liquids such as water or honey. The Expedition collected 22 bags from the Yirrkala region. |
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| Coverage year : | 1948 |
| Place : | Yirrkala |
| Region : | Northern Territory |
| Further reading : | American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, (1948). Records of the American-Australian scientific expedition to Arnhem Land, Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1956-1964 Berndt, Ronald M. and Phillips, E. S. (eds). The Australian Aboriginal heritage : an introduction through the arts, 2nd ed, Sydney : Australian Society for Education through the Arts in association with Ure Smith, 1978 Elkin, A. P., Berndt, Catherine and Ronald. Art in Arnhem Land, Melbourne : Cheshire, 1950 Hamby, Louise (ed). Twined together = kunmadj njalehnjaleken, Gunbalanya, N.T. : Injalak Arts and Crafts, 2005 Hutcherson, Gillian. Djalkiri w nga = The land is my foundation : 50 years of Aboriginal art from Yirrkala, Northeast Arnhem Land, Nedlands, W.A. : The University of W.A. Berndt Museum of Anthropology, c1995 May, Sally K. Collecting cultures : myth, politics, and collaboration in the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition, Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, 2010 McKenzie, Maisie. Mission to Arnhem Land, Adelaide : Rigby, 1976 Morphy, Howard. Ancestral connections : art and an aboriginal system of knowledge, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991. |
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