Unknown
(Australia)
- Title
- Totemic emblem (Emu)
- Place of origin
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Central Arnhem Land →
Northern Territory →
Australia
- Year
- circa 1950s
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- paperbark, vegetable fibre string, beeswax, feathers, red, yellow, white, black painted decoration
- Dimensions
-
54.6 h x 7.6 diam. at base
- Credit
- Purchased 1962
- Accession number
- IA25.1962
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (8)
-
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, 3, 4 (colour illus.).
'Yiribana Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Gallery', pg. 6-9., The Art Gallery of New South Wales Bulletin Apr 1995-May 1995, Apr 1995-May 1995, 9 (colour illus.).
The Art Gallery of New South Wales Bulletin Oct 1994-Nov 1994, Oct 1994-Nov 1994, 36 (colour illus.).
Margo Neale (Australia) (Author), Yiribana: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection, Sydney, 1994, 99 (colour illus.), 100, 136, 139. plate no. 47
Yiribana 1994, 1994, 15 (colour illus.).
Annabel Davie (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales Handbook, Domain, 1988, 63 (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.
