Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Visual Works (hierarchy name)
5. visual works (works)
6. [visual works by material or technique]
7. paintings (visual works)
8. [paintings by material or technique]

Anotations

Scope note:

Describes elaborately painted sheets of bark found throughout Aboriginal Australian cultures. For native Australians, the art of bark paintings was an everyday practice, but it was also utilized for ceremonial purposes. After European colonization, bark painting production decreased.