Title
Figure of Garaginya Ancestral Being of the Yirritja moiety and brother of Lany'tjung
1960
Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Figure of Garaginja, ancestral being and brother of Laindjung
Figure of Garaginja, ancestral being and brother of Lany'tjung - 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
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- wood, human hair, parakeet feathers, white feathers, colours: red, yellow, white, black on red ground
- Dimensions
- 85.7 cm height
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Stuart Scougall 1960
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- IA81.1960
- Copyright
- © Estate of Munggurrawuy Yunupingu, courtesy Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre
- Artist information
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Muŋgurrawuy Yunupiŋu
Works in the collection
- Share
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Places
Where the work was made
Yirrkala
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1960, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Mar 1961–23 Apr 1961
A material thing - Objects from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 31 Aug 1998–09 Feb 1999
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
Sentient lands, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Jun 2016–08 Oct 2017
Sentient lands, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 Jan 2017–08 Oct 2017
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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, 31 (colour illus.).
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Hetti Perkins and Ken Watson, A material thing - objects from the collection, Sydney, 1999.
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Niru Ratnam, Frameworks for modern art, 'Exhibiting the 'other': Yuendumu community's 'Yarla'', pg. 206-251, London, 2003, 222 (colour illus.). plate no. 5.16
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