Framed
Rock and Bark Paintings
How
to order
1.
Select Design
2.Select Colour
3. Select size
(NB:
If you choose several different sizes and want specific
colours in those sizes you must choose Design and Colour
for each size first then choose the size, otherwise we will
send you an assortment of designs and colours)
Your
Jabiru Boomerang quality guarantee
To
ensure your Paintings
are authetic look for the Jabiru Boomerang label that guarantees
you are purchasing a genuine article.
Jabiru
Boomerangs guarantee that all products are genuine handcrafted
products by Australian Aboriginals
Bark
Paintings
Bark
painting by Aboriginal people is a long tradition. Dating
back thousands of years. The earliest European record of
Aboriginal bark painting was by the French artist N M Petit,
who travelled with N T Baudin to Tasmania from 1800 to 1804,
and recorded the drawings found on a bark shelter over a
grave.
Other early records
describe painted bark shelters in Tasmania, Victoria and
NSW. One example from Victoria painted prior to 1876 is
now in the Museum of Victoria. These examples were drawn
with charcoal, and painted or scratched onto smoke-blackened
bark. Most of these records suggest the use of barkpainting
as a part of everyday life, but there are also examples
of ceremonial and mortuary paintings.
In
northern Australia, paintings on bark shelters in the Kimberley
and Arnhem Land were stylistically similar to rock shelter
paintings. They were used to illustrate stories which were
told to young people during the long hours of the wet season
when people were confined to the shelter. Painted bark baskets
were used in Melville and Bathurst Island mortuary ritual,
and bark coffins and bark belts were painted in northeast
Arnhem Land.
ROCK
ENGRAVING
An indication of the ancient derivations of the ground art
is that identical designs elements occur in the rock engravings,
some of which are now known to be about twenty thousand
years old. Plain and concentric cirlces, straight bar-lines
and sinuous lines and animal tracks prevail in each art
form. The major difference is probably, the regular inclusion
of arcs (representing seated figures) in ground painting.
There a similarity is the absence of the square or rectangle,
a design element that frequently occurs on woomeras (spear
throwers), hard-wood shields and other wooden objects. Despite
the similarities, however, the fragile nature and purposeful
destruction of ground paintings - presumably in ancient
times as in modern - makes it unlikely that we will ever
know when this form of art became prevalent.
Your
Jabiru Boomerang quality guarantee
To
ensure your Paintings
are authetic look for the Jabiru Boomerang label that guarantees
you are purchasing a genuine article.
Jabiru
Boomerangs guarantee that all products are genuine handcrafted
products by Australian Aboriginals
