Item - Waterspouts
| ID | UNSW BP 1989/0480 (082496) |
| Artist | George LIWUKANG BUKURLATJPI (c. 1927 - ) |
| Title | Waterspouts |
| Alternate Titles | |
| Category | Painting |
| Medium | bark |
| Materials | ochres on eucalyptus bark |
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| Measurements (cms) | |
| Height | 74.00 |
| Width | 47.50 |
| Depth | 0.00 |
| Other | Box frame: 104 x 76 x 9.5 cms |
| Marks/Inscriptions | |
| Location | |
| Signed | not signed |
| Produced | |
| When | 1976 |
| Where | Australia, NT, Elcho Island |
| Style | NE Arnhem Land |
| Subject | Waterscape |
| Credit Line | Presented by Professor John Cawte through the Australian Government's Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme, 1989 |
| Description/Remarks | Depicts three waterspouts rising from three circles at base of image; set against interwoven pattern of wide bands in cross-hatch pattern (rarrk). Bunches of sea-anemones appear on the side borders of image. "A waterspout is the urinary system or sometimes the fishing spear of the cloud giant, Djambawul the Thunderman. Liwukan has painted this version of the story granted to him through his mother. It is a Marchinbar (Wessel Islands) design, as shown by the curved hatching, which represents the northwest monsoon, and by the sea-anemones, which are turtle food. The tripartite division of the column of the waterspout corresponds with modern photographic evidence." (from John Cawte's "The Universe of the Warramirri") |
| Exhibition History | |
| Bibliography | John Cawte AO The Universe of the Warramirri: Art, Medicine and Religion in Arnhem Land NSW University Press, Kensington, NSW, Australia, 1993,, pg.62; ill.pg. 63 ISBN 0 86840 013 0 |
