Munggurrawuy Yunupingu
(Australia circa 1907–12 Apr 1979)
- Language group
- Gumatj, Arnhem region
- Title
- Figure of an Ancestral Being of the Yirritja moiety
- Other titles:
- Figure of an ancestral being, of the Jirritja moiety
- Place of origin
-
North-east Arnhem Land →
Northern Territory →
Australia
- Year
- circa 1960
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- wood, human hair, parakeet feathers, possum fur, white feathers, colours: red, yellow, white, black on red ground
- Dimensions
-
69.2 h
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Stuart Scougall 1960
- Accession number
- IA10.1960
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (1)
-
Hetti Perkins (Australia) (Author), Ken Watson (Australia) (Author), A material thing - objects from the collection, Sydney, 1999.
- Exhibition history (4)
-
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1960, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 22 Mar 1961–23 Apr 1961.
A material thing - Objects from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 31 Aug 1998–09 Feb 1999.
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000.
The Dreamers (2009-10), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 09 May 2009 -.
