Unknown
(Australia)
- Title
- Totemic emblem (Long necked fish eating bird)
- Other titles:
- Totemic emblem (Burala-long-necked, fish-eating bird)
- 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
-
73.7 h x 8.9 diam. at base
- Credit
- Purchased 1962
- Accession number
- IA20.1962
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (4)
-
Hetti Perkins (Australia) (Author), Margie West (Australia) (Author), Theresa Willsteed (Editor), One sun one moon: Aboriginal art in Australia, Sydney, 2007, 270 (colour illus.). titled 'Totemic emblem (Burala-long-necked, fish-eating bird)'
Hetti Perkins (Australia) (Author), Ken Watson (Australia) (Author), A material thing - objects from the collection, Sydney, 1999, 3, 4 (colour illus.).
Exhibitions events - Art Gallery of New South Wales Aug 1998-Oct 1998, Aug 1998-Oct 1998, 12 (colour illus.).
Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Editor), Jan Meek (Australia) (Editor), Portrait of a Gallery, Sydney, 1984, 44 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (1)
-
A material thing - Objects from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 31 Aug 1998–09 Feb 1999.
