Title
Dinungkwulanguwa - Dugongs
1948
Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Two dugongs
Dugongs
Dinungkwulanguwa (Dugongs) - Place where the work was made
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Groote Eylandt
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Date
- 1948
- Media category
- Bark painting
- Materials used
- natural pigments on bark
- Dimensions
- 74.0 x 39.5 cm (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Dated u.l. corner, black fibre-tipped pen ".../ 21.4.48/ ...". Not signed.
- Credit
- Gift of the Commonwealth Government 1956
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 9261
- Copyright
- © the artist courtesy Anindilyakwa Arts and Cultural Centre
- Artist information
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Kulprati
Works in the collection
- Share
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Places
Where the work was made
Groote Eylandt
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Gamarada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 1996–16 Feb 1997
Mountford Gifts: Works from the American Australian scientific expedition to Arnhem Land 1948, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 Mar 2009–03 Jun 2009
Our spirits lie in the water, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 2014–01 Nov 2015
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE, Steven Miller, Tony Tuckson, James Scougall, Mollie Gowing, Harry Messel, Craig Brush, Ronald Fine, Alison Fine, Gordon Davies, Rosalind Davies, Christopher Hodges, Helen Eager, Rosemary Gow, Sandra Phillips, Daphne Wallace and Ken Watson, Gamarada, Sydney, 1996, 13 (colour illus.).
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Stephen Gilchrist (Editor), Everywhen: the eternal present in Indigenous art from Australia, Cambridge, 2016, 77 (colour illus.). fig.no. 10
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Jonathan Jones, Mountford Gifts: Works from the American-Australian scientific expedition to Arnhem Land 1948, 'Mountford Gifts: Works from the American-Australian scientific expedition to Arnhem Land 1948', pg. 1-5, Sydney, 2009, 3, 4,.
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Purchases and Acquisitions for 1956 National Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney, 1956, 21. cat.no. 42; titled 'Dugongs'
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