Item - Beginning of the wet season
| ID | UNSW BP 1989/0473 (082485) |
| Artist | George LIWUKANG BUKURLATJPI (c. 1927 - ) |
| Title | Beginning of the wet season |
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| Category | Painting |
| Medium | bark |
| Materials | ochres on eucalyptus bark |
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| Height | 101.00 |
| Width | 52.00 |
| Depth | 0.00 |
| Other | Box frame: 129.5 x 83 x 6.5 cms |
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| When | 1976 |
| Where | Australia, NT, Elcho Island |
| Style | NE Arnhem Land |
| Subject | Religion |
| Credit Line | Presented by Professor John Cawte through the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme, 1989 |
| Description/Remarks | The central figure represents Marryalyan, the God of the Sea surrounded by fish, rays and snakes on a diagonally striped, cross-hatched (rarrk pattern) ground in yellow, red, white and black ochres. All the animals here are of the Yirritja moiety and the painting represents the mysteries of the evaporation and condensation of water and cyclonic rains. |
| Exhibition History | New Acquisitions: Bark Paintings & Sculptures, The University Club, (18/07/1989 - 18/08/1989) |
| Bibliography | John Cawte AO. The Universe of the Warramirri: Art, Medicine and Religion in Arnhem Land, NSW University Press, Kensington, NSW, Australia, 1993, pg.74 and ill. pg.75 ISBN 0 86840 013 0 |
