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Title

Awelye (For the mountain devil lizard)

1994

Artist

  • Details

    Place where the work was made
    Utopia Northern Territory Australia
    Date
    1994
    Media category
    Painting
    Materials used
    synthetic polymer paint on polycotton
    Dimensions
    206.2 x 182.0 x 3.0 cm stretcher
    Signature & date

    Not signed. Not dated.

    Credit
    Mollie Gowing Acquisition fund for Contemporary Aboriginal art 1994
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    212.1994
    Copyright
    © Ada Bird Petyarre/Copyright Agency

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    Artist information
    Ada Bird Petyarre

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  • Places

    Where the work was made

    Utopia

  • Bibliography

    Referenced in 3 publications

    • Board of Studies of New South Wales, Aboriginal Perspective- History Teaching Kit, Sydney, 1995, 14,27,49,53,56,63,93,113. PS Worksheet 287

    • Edmund Capon AM, OBE, Steven Miller, Tony Tuckson, James Scougall, Mollie Gowing, Harry Messel, Craig Brush, Ronald Fine, Alison Fine, Gordon Davies, Rosalind Davies, Christopher Hodges, Helen Eager, Rosemary Gow, Sandra Phillips, Daphne Wallace and Ken Watson, Gamarada, Sydney, 1996, 47 (colour illus.).

    • Margo Neale, Yiribana: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection, Sydney, 1994, 106, 107 (colour illus.), 138, 139. plate no. 51

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