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Cherie Beach 

Arnhem Land art 'detectives' helping discover who painted these priceless works

Century-old Arnhem Land bark paintings' first encounter with artists' descendants (ABC Darwin: Cherie Beach)

More than a century after anthropologist Sir Baldwin Spencer collected bark paintings from Arnhem Land, research is underway to identify the artists who created the work. 

These are some of Australia's oldest and most prized bark paintings, and they have been held in a vault nearly 4,000 kilometres away in Melbourne.

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