![]() ![]() ![]() Mostly there were many various Aboriginal cultures across Australia whose identities were totally not understood or not seen by anyone outside their own community. However the chances of someone in the broader community seeing something like dot painting would have been very slim. Those items may have had dot embellishments on them. There were also anthropologists collecting artefacts or very sacred items, perhaps a stone tjuringa that had designs on it. ![]() They were in museums and art galleries and people also knew Albert Namatjira landscapes of Central Australia. People knew of the bark painting styles, like the crosshatching and the x-ray designs from Arnhem Land. There was some knowledge of the bark painting coming out of the Northern Territory. The short answer is probably no, people wouldn't have had access to seeing anything like it.įor a start, it would be a very rare thing to see an Aboriginal symbol or depiction shown anywhere. There’s a curiosity about whether we would have seen this type of patterning and dot work in artworks prior to the 1970’s. At Japinkga Gallery we are sometimes asked our opinion about when people started to see dot painting. ![]()
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