‘To the time of our ancestors’

“Djan’kawu Sisters Story” (1942) (natural pigments on eucalyptus bark), by Mawunbuy Munuŋgurr, in the show “Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala,’’ at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., through Dec. 4. Credit: Donald Thomson Collection. On loan to Museums Victoria from the University of Melbourne. DT000065. Courtesy Hood Museum of Art.

The museum says the exhibit showcases over 90 paintings on eucalyptus that "chronicles the rise of a globally significant art movement as told from the perspective of the Yolŋu people." The paintings represent songlines, sung stories, through rich depictions, lovingly rendered in natural pigments.

"The stories and the songlines take you back to the time of our ancestors," writes Wanyubi Marika, a prolific artist and ambassador of the Yolŋu people. For more information, please visit here.