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Aurangnamirri Wommatakimmi (Young Brook) circa 1920-1973
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description
- AURANGNAMIRRI WOMMATAKIMMI (YOUNG BROOK)
- Tapara, The Moon Man
- Natural earth pigments on carved ironwood
- 41cm high
Provenance
Executed at Milikapiti (Snake Bay), Melville Island, circa 1960
Dorothy Bennett Private Collection, Sydney
Acquired from the above in 1981
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 9 July, 2001, lot 25 (AU648)
Fiona Brockhoff, Melbourne
Dorothy Bennett Private Collection, Sydney
Acquired from the above in 1981
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 9 July, 2001, lot 25 (AU648)
Fiona Brockhoff, Melbourne
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Literature
Jennifer Isaacs, Tiwi Art/History/Culture, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2012, p. 29, illus.
Cf. For a closely related figure of Tapara by Cardo Kerinua see Lance Bennett, Art of the Dreamtime: The Dorothy Bennett Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art, Kodansha, Tokyo, 1969, p. 144