Title
Yawkyawk
1985
Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Yawk Yawk (Young girl's spirit)
Yawkyawk (Young girl's spirit) - Place where the work was made
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Mumeka
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Western Arnhem Land
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Date
- 1985
- Media category
- Bark painting
- Materials used
- natural pigments on bark
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 21.9 cm (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1985
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 218.1985.1
- Copyright
- © Estate of Jimmy Njiminjuma/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Jimmy Njiminjuma
Works in the collection
- Share
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Bulada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 Aug 1997–14 Dec 1997
Crossing country: the alchemy of Western Arnhem Land art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 24 Sep 2004–12 Dec 2004
Country Culture Community (2008-09), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Nov 2008–19 Apr 2009
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Margo Neale, Yiribana: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection, Sydney, 1994, 56, 57 (colour illus.), 138, 139. plate no. 25 (part 3 of work)
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Hetti Perkins, Crossing country: the alchemy of western Arnhem Land art, Sydney, 2004, 71 (colour illus.), 229.
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