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Large woven basket with a long handle that extends overtop of the entire basket; strap ends are stitched along top interior edge. Strap consists of three coiled strands. Handle has stiffened and sits above rim of basket. Body is circular and has a wide coiled rim. Sides and base are decorated with bands of alternating open and closed weave; open sections have a grid pattern with diagonal lines throughout them. Entire basket is naturally coloured.
Painting on a rectangular piece of slightly warped bark; depicts a spirit figure. The background is painted orange-red, figure is beige and wearing a wide-brimmed hat and full-body suit. Face of figure is rectangular, and has black eyes and a wide frowning mouth. Arms are held up and knees are bent, with feet turned toward one another; figures spans entire bark piece. Both hat and suit have an alternating stripe pattern, done in red, white and dark yellow; stripes are made up of cross-hatching. Cuffs, neckline and centre of full-body suit have beige bands with red dots throughout. Identically patterned beige bands extend from elbows and connect to knees; two striped bands extend from bottom edge of hat and connect to feet. Rectangle protrudes from bottom of figure's body and has two beige points along the bottom edge; rectangle decorated with the alternating stripe pattern. Back is undecorated; inscriptions written across surface. (Hanging hardware attached along top centre edge.)
Carving of a lizard, done in high relief, on a short cylindrical pole; undecorated base extends from bottom. Pole is stained dark brown; lizard is a matching colour, outlined with dark red pigment. Majority of lizard is on front of pole with its legs wrapped around the sides; tail touches base and triangle-shaped head is close to top edge. Alternating stripes of white and dark yellow dots decorate surface of lizard. Eyes and nostrils are white; both are oval-shaped. Top of pole has a band circling it, made of shallowly incised lines.
Painting on a rectangular piece of slightly warped bark; likely depicts the entity Wintjili. The background consists of black and brown-red stripes, of varying widths; blocks of dark yellow throughout stripe pattern. Outer edge of painting is trimmed with white bands filled with black diagonal lines, dark red vertical lines, and black and dark red dots. Figure spans entire bark piece, arms are held up and knees are bent; hands and feet are beige, face is decorated with black and maroon bands, made up of cross-hatching. Head is oval-shaped; white circular eyes frame a large, beige triangular nose, maroon dots across nose. Figure is wearing a full-body suit with an alternating stripe and chevron pattern, done in maroon and dark yellow; patterns are made up of cross-hatching. Dark yellow band runs down centre of suit, alternating sections of black and white dots throughout. Edges of suit are trimmed with white and maroon dots. Semi-circular shapes protrude from either side of chest, underneath bent arms; done in orange and decorated with white striped bands. Additional white bands decorate background, filled with black and maroon dots. Back of painting is undecorated; inscriptions written across surface. (Hanging hardware attached along top centre edge.)
Large, oval-like basketry mat, with central circular weaving. Naturally dyed designs in circle consist of concentric bands- of varying widths, colours and designs- around a dark yellow circle. The bands are (from centre out): plain light purple; vertical rows of yellow and light purple; plain white; white strands bound together with light purple; plain light purple; diagonal lines of orange and black; strands of yellow, orange and light purple bound with black; strands of yellow, orange, light purple and black bound with dark purple and orange; and strands of yellow, orange, light purple, black and dark purple bound with white. Long strands making up central weaving extend from edges in a spiral, forming mat’s overall oblong shape.
A long dark wood piece with rounded ends. The flat side is decorated with carved very abstracted birds surrounded by thin vertical lines. The other side is curved.
Pattern of concentric circles and parallel lines, dark brown, hole at one end.
Geometric patterns of concentric circles and double curved lines on both sides. One end has been rubbed with white pigment and has two dots and a line painted in black on one side of this white panel. The rest is red.
Geometric designs on one side consisting of concentric circles and rectangles with a zigzag band. The back is plain.
Concentric circle pattern with similar lines on both sides, one end is white, the rest is reddish.