Item - Sea hero working
| ID | UNSW BP 1989/0472 (082489) |
| Artist | George LIWUKANG BUKURLATJPI (c. 1927 - ) |
| Title | Sea hero working |
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| Category | Painting |
| Medium | bark |
| Materials | ochres on eucalyptus bark |
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| Measurements (cms) | |
| Height | 62.00 |
| Width | 38.50 |
| Depth | 0.00 |
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| Produced | |
| When | 1976 |
| Where | Australia, NT, NE Arnhem Land, Elcho Island |
| Style | NE Arnhem Land |
| Subject | Religion |
| Credit Line | Presented by Professor John Cawte through the Australian Government's Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme, 1989 |
| Description/Remarks | Image depicts Marryalyan, God of the Sea, altering his body into sea creature forms: hair is seaweed; body is a crayfish; tail is a blackfish. Six tuna protect him during these changes. All against a cross-hatch patterned ground (rarrk). |
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| Bibliography | John Cawte AO The Universe of the Warramirri: Art, Medicine and Religion in Arnhem Land NSW University Press, Kensington, NSW, Australia, 1993,, pg.78; ill.pg.79 ISBN 0 86840 013 0 |
