IDNO

T.152374.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "S.P. 257. New Guinea. Birds of Paradise. 35mm. Ekta." [Poignant's manuscript]
"6 - 12. Bark painting - Wonjina [sic 'Wandjina']. British Museum." [Poignant's typed text]

Place

Australasia; Australia; Kimberley; British Museum

Cultural Affliation

Ungarinyin

Named Person

Photographer

Poignant, Axel

Collector / Expedition

Date

pre August 1967

Collection Name

Poignant Collection

Source

Poignant, Roslyn

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.148696.RPT - T.152693.RPT were located in the drawer file of transparency sheets, numbered C1021/.

T.152364.RPT - T.152388.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/155.

Related object: Object shown is in the care of The British Museum, reference Oc1947,14.2, with the following information: Description: Painting in black, yellow and brown on a white ground; one side shows a Wandjina (ancestral spirit) figure; the other side depicts a lizard or goanna with eggs. Made by: Ungarinyin. Production date: 1939 (before). Made in: Kimberley (Western Australia). Found/Acquired: Sale River. Length: 30.50 centimetres. Width: 15.50 centimetres. Curator's comments
Register 1947. Board painted on one side with a human figure and a lizard on the other. Carried out in black, yellow and brown on a white ground. Represents Wondjina and goanna with eggs.
From the Ungarinyin, Sale River, Kimberley district, Western Australia. For exchange see correspondence (Dr. Petri, 1939). Acquisition date 1947. Acquisition notes
Exchanged with the Institut fur Kultur-Morphologie, Frankfurt (per Dr. Petri, 1939). See correspondence (Dr Petri, 1939) Dr. Helmut Petri was the leader of a German expedition to the Kimberley region of Western Australia in 1938. The expedition was organised by the Frobenius Institute of Frankfurt. It is likely that this painting was acquired during the expedition. [source https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Oc1947-14-2 KK 24/08/2022]