Attributed to Jimmy Kerinaiua

Executed in Mandiimpu country, Southern Melville Island, circa 1960

Dorothy Bennett, Darwin, acquired circa 1960

Wesfarmers Limited, Perth, acquired from the above in 1989

Sotheby’s, Sydney, Aboriginal and Tribal Art, November 9, 1997, lot 44, consigned by the above

Fiona Brockhoff, Melbourne, acquired at the above auction

National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Open Air: Portraits in the Landscape, December 3, 2008 - March 1, 2009

This sculpture was originally catalogued in the Dorothy Bennett Collection as being by Benedict Palmeiua Munkara. However, it bears no stylistic resemblance to any known sculptures by Munkara, and is by the same hand as two sculptures in the Lance Bennett Collection, recorded as being created by Jimmy Kerinaiua.