Yarrelalim - The Spirit Women in Ngirrmayirriny Country

Phyllis Nakamarra, Gija / Australian, born about 1940
Gija
Warmun
East Kimberley
Western Australia
Australia

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2000

Ochres on canvas

Overall: 53 1/8 × 48 1/16 in. (135 × 122 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Will Owen and Harvey Wagner

2009.92.268

Geography

Place Made: Australia, Oceania

Period

21st century

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Painting

Not on view

Course History

Environmental Studies 26.01, Soil Ecological Systems, Bala Chaudary, Spring 2023

Anthropology 3.01, Introduction to Anthropology, Charis Ford Morrison Boke, Summer 2023

Exhibition History

Pigment of Imagination, Class of 1967 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, April 15-August 5, 2022.

Publication History

Stephen Gilchrist, editor, Crossing Cultures, The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Art at the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2012, p. 150, no. 88.

Provenance

Jirrawun Aboriginal Arts, Wyndham, Western Australia, Australia; Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia; sold to Will Owen (1952-2015) and Harvey Wagner (1931-2017), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, date unknown; given to present collection, 2009.

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