Greg Ullungurra
(Australia)
- Language group
- Tiwi, North region
- Title
- Jabiru
- Place of origin
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Melville and Bathurst Islands →
Northern Territory →
Australia
- Cultural origin
- Tiwi Islands
- Year
- circa 1960s
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- carved and painted ironwood
- Dimensions
-
87.0 x 14.0cm
- Credit
- Gift of Harry Messel 1990
- Accession number
- 131.1990
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Carved representations of this huge-beaked swamp bird derive from graveside poles. The painted design, although held in this case to represent the bird’s feathers, is typical of the decorative panelling which is applied to some poles. The material is ironwood, favoured as the medium for poles because of its extreme hardness and resistance to deterioration in the tropical elements.
Harry Messel- Bibliography (1)
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Hetti Perkins (Australia) (Author), Ken Watson (Australia) (Author), A material thing - objects from the collection, Sydney, 1999, 7.
- Exhibition history (1)
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A material thing - Objects from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 31 Aug 1998–09 Feb 1999.
