Item - Squid's canoe

ID UNSW BP 1989/0470 (082492)
Artist George LIWUKANG BUKURLATJPI (c. 1927 - )
Title Squid's canoe
Alternate Titles (Mamu spirit boat)
Category Painting
Medium bark
Materials ochres on eucalyptus bark
Edition Number
Measurements (cms)  
  Height 128.00
  Width 48.00
  Depth 0.00
  Other Box frame: 142.5 x 70 x 11 cms
Marks/Inscriptions  
  Location
  Signed
Produced  
  When 1977
  Where Australia, NT, 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    This bark is similar to "Mamu spirit boat", painted in 1982 by the same artist and held in the National Gallery of Australia - see Wally Caruana, "Aboriginal Art", Thames and Hudson London 1993, ill. fig. 57 p. 71
Exhibition History Exhibition of 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 UP Sydney 1993,, pg.84 and ill.pg.85
ISBN 0 86840 013 0

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