Unknown
(Australia)
- Title
- Miniature Tutini (Pukumani gravepost)
- Place of origin
-
Melville and Bathurst Islands →
Northern Territory →
Australia
- Year
- collected circa 1960s
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- natural pigments on wood
- Dimensions
-
55.0 x 7.5 x 7.0cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Dr James and Mrs Joan Scougall 2003
- Accession number
- 95.2003
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This tiny carved wooded replica of a Tiwi Pukimani gravepost is from the same period as the collection gifted by Dr Stuart Scougall in the late 1950s and 1960s. It was collected by Dr Scougall at Melville Island in the 1960s.
Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003
