M0012420: Bark anatomical drawings of fish and pigmy goose

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Anatomy, Bark drawings of skeleton of fish and pigmy goose...Australia

Photograph of a bark drawing showing part of the skeletal form of a Barramunda fish and pigmy goose, with a pair of stencilled hands, created by indigenous Australians living in Kakadu, North Australia. This reproduction was taken from Spencer, Baldwin: Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia, London: 1914. Related images: M0012418, M0012419

March 1952

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.