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 |
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| Measurements (cms) | |
| Height | 128.00 |
| Width | 48.00 |
| Depth | 0.00 |
| Other | Box frame: 142.5 x 70 x 11 cms |
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| 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 |
