Aurangnamirri Wommatakimmi (Young Brook) circa 1920-1973

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5,000 - 8,000 GBP

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Description

AURANGNAMIRRI WOMMATAKIMMI (YOUNG BROOK)
Untitled, Tapara the Moon Man and Tukimbimi the Owl
Natural earth pigments on carved wood
100cm high

Provenance

Executed at Milikapiti (Snake Bay), Melville Island, circa 1968
Jerome Gould, Los Angeles, California
Sotheby's, Fine Tribal Art and Aboriginal Paintings, Sydney, 4 December, 1994, lot 284
Fiona Brockhoff, Melbourne

Catalogue Note

Cf. Ronald M. Berndt and E.S. Phillips, The Australian Aboriginal Heritage: An Introduction Through the Arts, Ure Smith Sydney, 1973, for a closely related figure collected at Milikapiti by Professor Berndt in 1968