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, white feathers, bark, red, yellow, white, black on red ground
- Dimensions
- 77.5 h
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Stuart Scougall 1960
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- IA9.1960
- Copyright
- © Estate of Munggurrawuy Yunupingu, 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
Sentient lands, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Jun 2016–08 Oct 2017
Sentient lands, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 Jan 2017–08 Oct 2017
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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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