Item - Dugout canoe in storm at sea
| ID | UNSW BP 1992/0615 (089207) |
| Artist | George LIWUKANG BUKURLATJPI (c. 1927 - ) |
| Title | Dugout canoe in storm at sea |
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| Category | Painting |
| Medium | bark |
| Materials | ochres on eucalyptus bark |
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| Measurements (cms) | |
| Height | 131.00 |
| Width | 61.00 |
| Depth | 0.00 |
| Other | Box frame: 158.5 x 88.5 x 6.5 cms |
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| Produced | |
| When | 1979 |
| Where | Australia, NT, Elcho Island |
| Style | NE Arnhem Land |
| Subject | Nautical |
| Credit Line | Presented by Professor John Cawte through the Australian Government's Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme, 1992 |
| Description/Remarks | Image divided into three sections. Upper section depicts stormy sky with saw-tooth pattern of vertical triangles plus slanted parallel lines. Centre section shows three black figures rowing a large canoe with a woven sail; a wave design appears below the oars. Lower section has one large black fish and three smaller fish (two black, one ochre-coloured) unpatterned except for vertical stripes at gills and tail. All facing left; all on an overall cross-hatch (rarrk) patterned ground in ochre, white and black. Warramirri sea-going canoes were called "lepa-lepa" and were used to move rapidly from the mainland to the islands of the Arafura Sea. The rectangular mainsail was made of woven pandanus and usually measured 2m high by 3m wide (one-third forward of the mast and two-thirds behind). |
| Exhibition History | |
| Bibliography | John Cawte The Universe of the Warramirri: Art, Medicine and Religion in Arnhem Land NSWUP Sydney 1993,, pg.56; ill.pg.57 ISBN 0 86840 013 0 |
