An Australian Aboriginal Wandjina Figure on Bark Panel, early 20th century, Jewelry - Pendants its turned head with round

its turned head with round cheeks flanking a wedge-shaped nose

Only about a hundred containers of this type survive with most examples found in sanctuaries of female deities

executed in the established Moche repertoire of the Early–Middle Classic period

recorded by the Greek Historian Plutarch in the first to second centuries AD

and others - to demonstrate prowess as well as cross earthly boundaries into the realm of the deities

An Australian Aboriginal Wandjina Figure on Bark Panel, early 20th century, Jewelry - Pendants its turned head with roundWandjina Figure on Bark Panel, Kimberley Region, Western Australia mid 20th century Artist: Unknown Painted on a vertical bark panel, this work presents a stylized Wandjina figure rendered in a restrained palette of ochre red, white, black, and yellow. There is decorative banding at the upper and lower edges of the painting that incorporates repeating geometric motifs, anchoring the composition and echoing broader Kimberley design traditions. The