Munggurrawuy Yunupingu
(Australia circa 1907–12 Apr 1979)
- Language group
- Gumatj, Arnhem region
- Title
- Figure of Lany'tjung Ancestral Being of the Yirritja moiety
- Other titles:
- Figure of Laindjung, Ancestral Being
Figure of Lany'tjung, ancestral being of the Yirritja moiety - Place of origin
-
Yirrkala →
North-east Arnhem Land →
Northern Territory →
Australia
- Year
- 1960
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- wood, human hair, bark fibres, parakeet feathers, white feathers and natural pigments
- Dimensions
-
87.6cm height
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Stuart Scougall 1960
- Accession number
- IA80.1960
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (2)
-
Hetti Perkins (Australia) (Author), Ken Watson (Australia) (Author), A material thing - objects from the collection, Sydney, 1999.
Bruce James (Australia) (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Director), Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, Domain, 1999, 213 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (3)
-
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1960, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 22 Mar 1961–23 Apr 1961.
A material thing - Objects from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 31 Aug 1998–09 Feb 1999.
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000.
