Title
Figure of an Ancestral Being of the Yirritja moiety
circa 1960
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Figure of an ancestral being, of the Jirritja moiety
- Place where the work was made
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Yirrkala
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North-east Arnhem Land
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Date
- circa 1960
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- wood, human hair, parakeet feathers, possum fur, white feathers, colours: red, yellow, white, black on red ground
- Dimensions
- 69.2 h
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Stuart Scougall 1960
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- IA10.1960
- Copyright
- © Estate of Munggurrawuy Yunupingu, courtesy Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre
- Artist information
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Muŋgurrawuy Yunupiŋu
Works in the collection
- Share
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Places
Where the work was made
Yirrkala
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1960, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Mar 1961–23 Apr 1961
A material thing - Objects from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 31 Aug 1998–09 Feb 1999
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
The Dreamers (2009-10), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 09 May 2009–15 Aug 2010
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Hetti Perkins and Ken Watson, A material thing - objects from the collection, Sydney, 1999.
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