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Details
- Other Title
- Totemic emblem (Burala-long-necked, fish-eating bird)
- Place where the work was made
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Central Arnhem Land
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Date
- circa 1950s
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- paperbark, vegetable fibre string, beeswax, wood, feathers, red, yellow, white painted decoration
- Dimensions
- 73.7 h x 8.9 diam. at base
- Credit
- Purchased 1962
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- IA20.1962
- Artist information
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Unknown
Works in the collection
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Places
Where the work was made
Central Arnhem Land
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
A material thing - Objects from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 31 Aug 1998–09 Feb 1999
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE and Jan Meek (Editors), Portrait of a Gallery, 'Tribal Galleries', pg. 42-47, Sydney, 1984, 44 (colour illus.).
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Jonathan Cooper (Editor), Exhibitions events - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Aug 1998-Oct 1998, 12 (colour illus.).
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Hetti Perkins and Ken Watson, A material thing - objects from the collection, Sydney, 1999, 3, 4 (colour illus.).
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Margie West, One sun one moon: Aboriginal art in Australia, ‘Woven meaning: The continuity of Aboriginal fibre art’, pg. 271-275, Sydney, 2007, 270 (colour illus.). titled 'Totemic emblem (Burala-long-necked, fish-eating bird)'
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