Title
Barama and Lany'tjung: Yirritja creation story
circa 1963
Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Sea scene
Barama and Laindjang - Yirritja creation - 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 1963
- Media category
- Bark painting
- Materials used
- natural pigments on bark
- Dimensions
- 275.6 x 80.8 cm (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Stuart Scougall 1964
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- IA1.1964
- Copyright
- © Estate of Yaŋgarriny Wunuŋmurra, licensed by Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre
- Artist information
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Yaŋgarriny Wunuŋmurra
Works in the collection
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Places
Where the work was made
Yirrkala
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Gamarada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 1996–16 Feb 1997
Another Country, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Jul 1999–02 Apr 2000
A travelling exhibition on frogs in Australia, mixing cultural and zoological knowledge., South Australian Museum, Adelaide, 13 Dec 2007–10 Feb 2008
Maḏayin:Eight Decades of Aboriginal Bark Paintings from Yirrkala, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, United States of America, 16 Sep 2022–04 Dec 2022
Maḏayin:Eight Decades of Aboriginal Bark Paintings from Yirrkala, American University Museum, Washington D.C., 28 Jan 2023–21 May 2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Bruce James, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Australian Collection: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art', pg. 208-241, Sydney, 1999, 219 (colour illus.).
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Ewen McDonald, AGNSW Collections, 'From Colonialism to late Modernism', pg. 7-106, Sydney, 1994, 92 (colour illus.).
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John Mundine and Renée Porter, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Aboriginal and Melanesian', pg. 57-71, Sydney, 1988, 60, 61 (colour illus.).
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Margo Neale, Yiribana: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection, Sydney, 1994, 11 (colour illus.), 139. plate no. 3
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