Title
Wagilag Sisters' Story
1959
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Wauwalag sisters myth
- 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
- 1959
- Media category
- Bark painting
- Materials used
- natural pigments on bark
- Dimensions
- 142.2 x 54.6 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Stuart Scougall 1960
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- IA35.1960
- Copyright
- © Mathaman Marika, courtesy Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Arts Centre, Yirrkala
- Artist information
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Mathaman Marika
Works in the collection
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Places
Where the work was made
Yirrkala
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1960, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Mar 1961–23 Apr 1961
Gamarada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 1996–16 Feb 1997
Wangarrtja: The Painters of the Wagilag Sisters, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 12 Sep 1997–16 Nov 1997
ochre: bark paintings from the Collection (2000-01), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Nov 2000–06 May 2001
20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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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, 32 (colour illus.).
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