ID: 700009109 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009109	Record Type: Movable Work

Round Head Variation Tassel Bradshaws (rock painting; unknown Australian Aboriginal; around 5,000 Before Present; Kimberley (Western Australia, Australia, Oceania, World, Top...)

Note: In the northwest Kimberley region of Western Australia. A discrete panel depicting a profile pair of Round Head Variation Tassel Bradshaws in the slightly stopped alignment suggestive of a dancing alignment. Each figure displays the Double Prong Antennae headdress decoration, with the left figure additionally having a bobbed Headdress. Detail of the Broad Cummerbund waistbands and paunch lines are well defined, while the left figure's additional finery includes shoulder mounted Tasselled Cords, a Tasselled Cord decorated Chest Band and Ribbon Decorated Broad Elbow Bands.

Titles:

Round Head Variation Tassel Bradshaws (preferred,C,U,CO,undetermined,U,U)

Figures wearing ornate tasseled costumes (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

rock painting [300080123] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by location or context>)

Classifications:

aboriginal art (preferred)

paintings

Creation Date: around 5,000 Before Present

Creator Display:

unknown Australian Aboriginal [preferred]

painters unknown Australian Aboriginal (Australian Aboriginal cultural designation) [500202905]

Locations:

Current: Kimberley [7032377] Western Australia (state), Australia (nation), Oceania (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: pigment on stone

	rock (inorganic material) [300011692]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material)

	pigments [300013109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, colorant (material))

Dimensions: length: 250 mm (10 in)

Cultures:

Australian Aboriginal (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Bradshaw [300264762] (preferred,style)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, Oceanic, Australian, Australian regional styles, Kimberleys, Kimberleys rock art styles)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

religion and mythology

Specific Subjects:

	tassels [300232185]
	.....(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, trimming (decorative material)) (AAT)

	dancing (activity) [300389779]
	.....(Activities Facet, Physical and Mental Activities (hierarchy name), physical activities, <physical activities by specific context>, <public and interactive activities>) (AAT)

	human beings (species) [300265711]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Primates (order), Hominoidea (superfamily), Hominidae (family), Homo (genus)) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Round Head Variation Tassel Bradshaws	........ [VP]
	........ Bradshaw Paintings [online] (2003)
Figures wearing ornate tasseled costumes	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Bradshaw Paintings [online] (2003)