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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Cardwell
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Queensland
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Australia
- Date
- 2022
- Media categories
- Sculpture , Ceramic
- Materials used
- ceramic with glaze
- Dimensions
- 47.0 x 15.0 x 6.5 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Mollie Douglas Bequest 2022
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 261.2022
- Copyright
- © Alison Murray
- Artist information
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Alison Murray
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About
Art centre documentation for this work states:
"Based on the traditional fire making implements of the Girringun rainforest Aboriginal people, the artists have created artworks made from clay, timber and string to evoke the spirit of the old people.Traditionally, the firesticks were made up of two parts, the Bagu (body) and Jiman (sticks). Bagu is normally made from the boogadilla (milky pine tree) and Jiman are made from either Jiman (scrub vine) or mudja (wild guava). The bagu form was predominately founded in the shape of a man.
The spirit design was created with traditional clays and the ochre colours are magirra - yellow, gunggu – red, gaba – white and jillan – black charcoal usually applied with wallaby blood."