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Details
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- Spirit, in skeleton form in a seated position
Spirit figure in the form of a skeleton
Spirit figure - Place where the work was made
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Beswick Creek
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Western Arnhem Land
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Dates
- circa 1960
collected 1960 - Media category
- Bark painting
- Materials used
- natural pigments on bark
- Dimensions
- 55.2 x 34.3 cm (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Stuart Scougall 1960
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- IA21.1960
- Copyright
- © Nicholas. Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd
- Artist information
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Nicholas
Works in the collection
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Places
Where the work was made
Beswick Creek
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1960, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Mar 1961–23 Apr 1961
Gamarada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 1996–16 Feb 1997
Crossing country: the alchemy of Western Arnhem Land art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 24 Sep 2004–12 Dec 2004
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Margo Neale, Yiribana: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection, Sydney, 1994, 58 (colour illus.), 138, 139. plate no. 27
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Hetti Perkins, Crossing country: the alchemy of western Arnhem Land art, Sydney, 2004, 42 (colour illus.), 229.
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