Unknown
(Australia)
- Title
- Totemic emblem (Diver duck)
- Place of origin
-
Central Arnhem Land →
Northern Territory →
Australia
- Year
- circa 1950s
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- paperbark, vegetable fibre string, beeswax, wood, feathers, red, yellow, white painted decoration
- Dimensions
-
45.7 h x 6.4 diam. at base
- Credit
- Purchased 1962
- Accession number
- IA19.1962
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (5)
-
Hetti Perkins (Australia) (Author), Margie West (Australia) (Author), Theresa Willsteed (Editor), One sun one moon: Aboriginal art in Australia, Sydney, 2007, 270 (colour illus.).
Hetti Perkins (Australia) (Author), Ken Watson (Australia) (Author), A material thing - objects from the collection, Sydney, 1999, 4 (colour illus.).
Look Oct 1998, Oct 1998, 3 (colour illus.).
Stephen Weeks (Editor), Greg Hilty (Editor), Thomas Hauffe (Editor), Aratjara: art of the first Australians, Dusseldorf, 1993, 163 (colour illus.), 340.
Annabel Davie (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales Handbook, Domain, 1988, 62 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (1)
-
A material thing - Objects from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 31 Aug 1998–09 Feb 1999.
