Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/10/04
By: William Yen

Taipei, Oct. 4 (CNA) Over 100 pieces of Australian Aboriginal artwork painted on tree bark were shown

at the opening of an exhibition in Taipei on Friday, to promote indigenous culture, according to the organizers.

The "Old Masters – Australia's Great Bark Artists "exhibition of 134 pieces of artwork, which were mainly painted on tree bark of various sizes, as well as clay figurines, opened on Friday at the National Taiwan Museum in Taipei.

Margo Neale, head of the Center for Indigenous Knowledges at the National Museum of Australia, which co-organized the exhibition, said the artworks primarily come from the Arnhem Land region of the Northern Territory of Australia, the traditional home of the Yolngu indigenous people.

"It is a very highly sophisticated way of passing on culture that survives today. These bark paintings are like messages on note papers where you write information to tell other people things," she said.
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