Title
Creation of Five Waterholes
1961
Artist
No image
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Details
- Other Titles
- The creation of five waterholes
Creation of five waterholes in the mythological era - Place where the work was made
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Wadeye (Port Keats)
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Date
- 1961
- Media category
- Bark painting
- Materials used
- natural pigments on bark
- Dimensions
- 120.6 x 99.0 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Stuart Scougall 1961
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- IA24.1961
- Copyright
- © Estate of Birari
- Artist information
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Birari
Works in the collection
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Places
Where the work was made
Wadeye (Port Keats)
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1961, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Apr 1962–25 May 1962
Gamarada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 1996–16 Feb 1997
Bulada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 Aug 1997–14 Dec 1997
Art from Arnhem Land, Qantas House, Australia
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Margo Neale, Yiribana: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection, Sydney, 1994, 78, 79 (colour illus.), 136, 139. plate no. 37
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 8. cat.no. A20
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