Item - Mimi and namorodo spirits

ID UNSW BP 1986/0372 (088561)
Artist Albert DIRDI ( - )
Title Mimi and namorodo spirits
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Category Painting
Medium bark
Materials ochres on eucalyptus bark
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Measurements (cms)  
  Height 122.00
  Width 50.00
  Depth 0.00
  Other Box frame: 150 x 78 x 7 cms
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  Signed
Produced  
  When
  Where Australia, NT, Oenpelli
Style West Arnhem Land
Subject Religion
Credit Line Presented by Mr Duncan Fine through the Australian Government's Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme, 1986
Description/Remarks    Bark depicts 7 plump spirit figures with cross-hatch patterned bodies, round white faces with dark circular eyes, long white hair, white hands and feet, long fingers and toes; all floating on an unpainted ground, legs bent, arms outstretched. One very thin figure appears in profile in upper left of image.
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