Title
Lany'tjung - Banaidja Story
1960
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Laindjung - Banaidja myth Lany'tjung - Barama myth
- Place where the work was made
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Yirrkala
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North-east Arnhem Land
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Date
- 1960
- Media category
- Bark painting
- Materials used
- natural pigments on bark
- Dimensions
- 107.3 x 58.4 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Stuart Scougall 1960
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- IA28.1960
- Copyright
- © Estate of Munggurrawuy Yunupingu, courtesy Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre
- Artist information
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Muŋgurrawuy Yunupiŋu
Works in the collection
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About
Muŋgurrawuy Yunupiŋu's bark paintings are complex, many layered narratives pertaining to the creation of the Gumatj homelands in north east Arnhem Land. The diamond shaped miny’tji (sacred clan designs) are distinctive to Yirritja moiety artworks. In these paintings, the journeys and actions of ancestor beings are revealed, accompanied by motifs representing the transformation they wrought up on the landscape, such as the smoke and ash of fires, footprints, thunderclouds and rain.
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Places
Where the work was made
Yirrkala
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 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
Bulada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 Aug 1997–14 Dec 1997
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
The Dreamers (2009-10), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 09 May 2009–15 Aug 2010
