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Details
- Other Title
- Woven handbag (round shaped, with hinged lid and knop handle) [descriptive title]
- Place where the work was made
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Elcho Island
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Date
- circa 1932
- Media category
- Weaving
- Materials used
- natural fibres
- Dimensions
- 25.0 x 22.5 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Mollie Gowing 1995
- Location
- Modern gallery
- Accession number
- 24.1995
- Artist information
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Unknown
Works in the collection
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Places
Where the work was made
Elcho 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
Open Studio, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Jun 2022–Jan 2023
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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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Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter, Sacs, Paris, 2004, (colour illus.), 77 (colour illus.). titled 'Sac tissé aborigène'
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Hetti Perkins and Ken Watson, A material thing - objects from the collection, Sydney, 1999, 1 (colour illus.).
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