Item - Surgeon fish

ID UNSW BP 1989/0482 (082495)
Artist George LIWUKANG BUKURLATJPI (c. 1927 - )
Title Surgeon fish
Alternate Titles Surgeon fishes or Tangs
Category Painting
Medium bark
Materials ochres on eucalyptus bark
Edition Number
Measurements (cms)  
  Height 133.00
  Width 44.00
  Depth 0.00
  Other Box frame:
Marks/Inscriptions  
  Location
  Signed not signed
Produced  
  When 1977
  Where Australia, NT, Elcho Island
Style NE Arnhem Land
Subject Marine
Credit Line Presented by Professor John Cawte through the Australian Government's Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme, 1989
Description/Remarks    Image depicts three plain painted surgeon fish with linear detailing, ranked one above the other on a rarrk pattern ground.
Exhibition History Exhibition of Bark Paintings & Sculptures, The University Club, UNSW, (18/07/1989 - 18/08/1989)
Bibliography Cawte, J., The Universe of the Warramirri: Art, Medicine and Religion in Arnhem Land, New South Wales University Press, Kensington, NSW, Australia, 1993, pg.60; ill.pg.61
ISBN 0 86840 013 0

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