Title
Untitled (Mardayin design)
early 1970s
Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Sacred and Secret Maraian Ceremony
The bones - Place where the work was made
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Western Arnhem Land
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Date
- early 1970s
- Media category
- Bark painting
- Materials used
- natural pigments on bark
- Dimensions
- 76.2 x 46.4 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Qantas 1996
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 680.1996
- Copyright
- © Estate of Yirawala/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Yirawala
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About
This work represents the sacred Maraian Ceremony of the Kunwinjku clan of Western Arnhem Land.
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Places
Where the work was made
Western Arnhem Land
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Crossing country: the alchemy of Western Arnhem Land art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 24 Sep 2004–12 Dec 2004
One sun, one moon, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 03 Jul 2007–02 Dec 2007
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Deborah Edwards, One sun one moon: Aboriginal art in Australia, ‘Histories in the making: Aboriginal Art and modernism’, pg. 51-63, Sydney, 2007, 60 (colour illus.).
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Hetti Perkins, Crossing country: the alchemy of western Arnhem Land art, Sydney, 2004, 36 (colour illus., right image), 231.
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