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Title

Ku' Pii-wiin

2022

Artist

Roderick Yunkaporta

Australia

1948 –

Language group: Wik-Mungkan, West Cape region

  • Details

    Place where the work was made
    Aurukun → Cape York → Queensland → Australia
    Date
    2022
    Media categories
    Sculpture , Woodwork
    Materials used
    natural pigments with binders on milkwood
    Dimensions
    39.0 x 60.0 x 18.0 cm
    Signature & date

    Not signed. Not dated.

    Credit
    Commissioned with funds provided by the Aboriginal Art Collection Benefactors 2021
    Location
    North Building, ground level, Yiribana Gallery
    Accession number
    245.2022
    Copyright
    © Roderick Yunkaporta

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    Art Centre documentation for this work states:
    "Pii-wiin is the call that the brolga makes as they feed in the fresh lagoons. They whistle ‘piinth piinth piinth’. You can hear them if you get really close."

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