Artist Unknown

finely incised and infilled with natural earth pigments

16.0 x 15.0 cm

Private collection, Western Australia
Thence by descent
Private collection, Sydney

Of the animals shown, the lower right is a northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus), an attractive animal which lives in the savannahs of Northern Australia. The quoll features in the 'Coming of Death' myth of the Worora people whose traditional lands are outside of Derby in Western Australia. The bird may be Stone Curlew.