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Authors
Taçon, Paul S. C., Taylor, Luke, May, Sally K., Goldhahn, Joakim, Jalandoni, Andrea, Ressel, Alex and Mangiru, Kenneth
Title
Majumbu ('Old Harry') and the Spencer-Cahill bark painting collection
In
Australian archaeology
Imprint
vol. 89, no. 1, 2023, pp. 14-31
Url
https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2023.2177949
Subject
Chronological Classification 1901- Human Sciences
Description

On a collection made by Baldwin Spencer and buffalo hunter Paddy Cahill, between 1912 and 1922, of 163 bark paintings ofartists who also painted in rock shelters in western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. The collection is in Museum Victoria.

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cohn 2024

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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260