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(Australia)

Title
Totemic emblem (Diver duck)
Place of origin
Central Arnhem LandNorthern TerritoryAustralia
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.