Bark painting depicting Makasar boiling down trepang, by Mathaman Marika, 1964

A bark painting worked with ochres that is divided into three sections. The middle and lower sections depict two ships with sails, each with human figures on board. The sails define the edge of eachsection. At the top of the painting there are two pairs of human figures each stirring the contents of large pots. There is a tree in the centre of this section.