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1950s Aboriginal Bark Painting - Beautiful!!
$ 26.4
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Description
Aborigines Bark PaintingIn excellent condition. Large size with dimensions being 29" x 42". The bark painting is stored/preserved in a plastic envelop, sorry about the glares i didn't want to remove it because it is sealed.
Included is the original printed description which reads:
among a population of 14 million in Formosa a small island of 23,380 square miles there live about 200,000 Aborigines in the mountain regions. They are also known as the Mountain People and consist of 9 tribes. Each tribe preserves it's own art and culture. As their languages, arts, and cultures have some resemblance ot those of the South- sea people. anthropologist claim their origin to the Malay/Polynesia. Bark, wall paper presented here is 100% hand made of bark of tree colored and dyed with sap extracted from roots by old method initiated from their ancestors for thousands years. Designed are copied from the collections of some old families in Formosa.