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A pattern that is title to country.
Also known as: Yolngu clan pattern, Cross-hatched clan design
The Yolngu system in which cross-hatched designs belong to and identify particular clans.
Identify the clan to which a design, and the country it relates to, belong.
Contexts: History, Public information
Function as title: the right to paint a particular design is held by a clan, and painting it is an assertion of that relationship to country rather than an artistic choice.
Contexts: History, Public information
Have been produced as evidence in Australian land claims, so a design system has operated in a court as a form of documentary title.
Contexts: History, Public information
Fields of fine cross-hatched lines in ochre, laid out in blocks and bands, each clan's arrangement distinct from every other's.