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Details
- Alternative title
- Bark basket
- Place where the work was made
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Melville Island
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Date
- 1959
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- natural fibres
- Dimensions
- 80.0 x 46.0 x 38.0 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Stuart Scougall 1959
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- IA28.1959
- Artist information
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Unknown
Works in the collection
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Places
Where the work was made
Melville Island
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Gamarada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 1996–16 Feb 1997
A material thing - Objects from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 31 Aug 1998–09 Feb 1999
TIWI, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 23 Nov 2020–08 Mar 2021
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE, Steven Miller, Tony Tuckson, James Scougall, Mollie Gowing, Harry Messel, Craig Brush, Ronald Fine, Alison Fine, Gordon Davies, Rosalind Davies, Christopher Hodges, Helen Eager, Rosemary Gow, Sandra Phillips, Daphne Wallace and Ken Watson, Gamarada, Sydney, 1996, 51 (colour illus.).
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Hetti Perkins and Ken Watson, A material thing - objects from the collection, Sydney, 1999, 7.
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 6. cat.no. A6
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