Attributed to Muramba

Painted at Oenpelli (Gunbalanya), Western Arnhem Land

William McElwee Miller Jr., Princeton

Sotheby's, Melbourne, Aboriginal Art, November 24, 2009, lot 20, consigned by the above

Corporate Collection, Sydney, acquired at the above auction

Theodore Bruce Auctioneers and Valuers, Sydney, Oceanic, Aboriginal, Tribal Art, June 28, 2021, lot 9129

Acquired from the above auction by the present owner

R. L. Shalkop, The Art of Arnhem Land: From the Collection of William McE. Miller, Jr, Colorado Springs, 1966, cat. no. 29

The Taylor Museum of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, The Art of Arnhem Land: From the Collection of William McE. Miller, Jr, 1966

The Art of Arnhem Land exhibition catalogue states: "According to the myth, Nimbawah traveled with his two dogs, cutting his way through the hills. One day he reached a lagoon and met a pigeon-hawk. Nimbawah told him he was tired of life and was going to turn himself into a barramundi (a fish). After he did so, the lagoon began to rise so he turned himself into a rainbow, and still later into a large rock (shown in the painting) which the aborigines identify with one of the prominent landmarks in the Oenpelli area today."