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Title

Ku' Kuulk Ngottan

2022

Artist

Keith Wikmunea

Australia

1967 –

Language groups: Wik-Mungkan, West Cape region, Wik-Alken, West Cape region

  • Details

    Place where the work was made
    Aurukun → Cape York → Queensland → Australia
    Date
    2022
    Media category
    Sculpture
    Materials used
    natural pigments with binders on milkwood
    Dimensions
    25.0 x 78.0 x 19.5 cm
    Signature & date

    Not signed. Not dated.

    Credit
    Commissioned with funds provided by the Aboriginal Art Collection Benefactors 2021
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    242.2022
    Copyright
    © Keith Wikmunea

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  • About

    Art Centre documentation for this work states:
    "Kuulk Ngottan means ‘black soil country’. This place is at Ti-tree, my mother's Country. Kuulk means soil and Ngottan means black. In Wik-Alkan language the two names together mean black soil country."

  • Exhibition history

    Shown in 1 exhibition

    • SMP Interstitials, Art Gallery of New South Wales, North Building, Sydney, 03 Dec 2022–01 Sep 2023

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