The Seattle Art Museum announced it is repatriating an Australian Aboriginal object to Australia. The object, a sacred stone about a meter long with carvings, has been in the Seattle Art Museum ...

One section of artwork they have excavated, a stone with patterns drawn in charcoal ... such as throwing a spear. Aboriginal rock art is dotted throughout the vast nation, much of it undocumented ...

A new exhibition celebrating the brilliance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, while confronting the dark heart of ...

By Arthur Lubow The Aboriginal art of northeast Arnhem Land in Australia ... is still made from ocher pigments of ground stone. Image Wongu Munungurr’s painting on eucalyptus bark, “Maḏayin ...

For the study, Brady documented rock art drawings, including images found on early turtle shell, stone and wood objects ... Strait during its early history. Aboriginal people at Cape York ...

Aboriginal Rock Art on the Barnett River, Mount Elizabeth Station (photo by Graeme Churchard, CC BY-SA 2.0) Because Aboriginal Australians are traditionally nomadic people – having relied on songlines ...

Collection of John and Barbara Wilkerson An art movement’s origins usually can’t be pinpointed, but boldly patterned Aboriginal acrylic painting first appeared at a specific time and place.

It is used in the most profound ceremonies within Aboriginal ... stone's significance. Now it has been withdrawn from the auction, and efforts are taking place to repatriate it to the Museum and ...

More information: Ana Paula Motta et al, Linear Naturalistic Figures: a new Mid-to-Late Holocene Aboriginal rock art style from the northeast Kimberley, Australia, Australian Archaeology (2025 ...

Besides the aforementioned artists, Francesca Cavazzini, Aboriginal art specialist at Bonhams Sydney, cites Lin Onus, John Mawurndjul, and Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri among Australia’s ...