Title
Dhämala Story (sea eagle, catfish and king brown snake)
1983
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Sea Eagle, catfish and King Brown snake
- Place where the work was made
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Ramingining
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Central Arnhem Land
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Date
- 1983
- Media category
- Bark painting
- Materials used
- natural pigments on eucalyptus bark
- Dimensions
- 75.0 x 41.0 cm (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1984
- Location
- North Building, ground level, Yiribana Gallery
- Accession number
- 134.1984
- Copyright
- © David Malangi Estate. Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd
- Artist information
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David Malangi Daymirringui
Works in the collection
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About
The eagle tree stands just there where the conch shell is on the eastern bank of the mouth. Coming from the bush the Damala (White bellied sea eagle) going down to the saltwater – the river mouth. This country: he grew up there because he was created there and made his families grow there – this is the right country; Dhuwa country because this is his country.
A special tree – Ngurrunyuwa. See that tree it is the wattle tree; is still there and the eagle is not an ordinary eagle, it is from that country, not from another place or another eagle, it is sitting on the important tree. She made a nest and raised the eaglets. Looking at the tide to get the fish.
The Darrpa snake (king brown) is living there too, just like family for the Damala.
[Art Centre documentation]
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Places
Where the work was made
Ramingining
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Bulada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 Aug 1997–14 Dec 1997
No ordinary place: The art of David Malangi, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 31 Jul 2004–17 Nov 2004
No ordinary place: The art of David Malangi, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 23 Apr 2005–17 Jul 2005
No ordinary place: The art of David Malangi, Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide, 13 Aug 2005–02 Oct 2005
No ordinary place: The art of David Malangi, Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 12 Nov 2005–08 Jan 2006
No ordinary place: The art of David Malangi, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, 23 Apr 2006–06 Jun 2006
The Dreamers (2009-10), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 09 May 2009–15 Aug 2010
Yiribana Gallery: opening collection display, Art Gallery of New South Wales, North Building, Sydney, 03 Dec 2022–29 May 2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Susan Jenkins (Editor), No ordinary place: the art of David Malangi, Canberra, 2004, 88 (colour illus.).
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Cara Pinchbeck, Look, 'The Dreamers: Artists who revolutionised Aboriginal art', pg. 24-27, Sydney, Aug 2009, 24, 26 (colour illus.).
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