Sacred Story (Arrival of the Djang'kawu)
Wandjuk Marika OBE, Rirratjingu / Australian, 1929 - 1987
Rirratjingu
Yirrkala
Northeast Arnhem Land
Northern Territory
Australia
1963
Bark Painting, Ochres on stringybark
Overall: 47 5/8 × 15 3/8 in. (121 × 39 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Will Owen and Harvey Wagner
2009.92.322
Geography
Place Made: Australia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Course History
WRIT 5, Indigenous Knowledge and Development, Kenneth Bauer, Winter 2013
ARTH 16, ANTH 50, Australian Aborigional Art, Howard Morphy, Fall 2012
ARTH 16, ANTH 50, Australian Aborigional Art, Howard Morphy, Fall 2012
ARTH 16, ANTH 50, Australian Aborigional Art, Howard Morphy, Fall 2012
ARTH 16, ANTH 50, Australian Aborigional Art, Howard Morphy, Fall 2012
WRIT 5, Nature and Imagination: The Meanings of Place, William Nichols, Fall 2012
SART 29, Photography I, Brian Miller, Fall 2012
SART 30, Photography II, Brian Miller, Fall 2012
SART 25, Painting I, Esme Thompson, Fall 2012
SART 25, Painting I, Enrico Riley, Fall 2012
ANTH 30, Hunters and Gatherers, Nathaniel Dominy, Fall 2012
THEA 28, Dance Composition, Ford Evans, Fall 2012
SART 15, Drawing I, Gerald Auten, Fall 2012
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2012
NAS 42, Gender Issues in Native American Life, Vera Palmer, Fall 2012
Exhibition History
Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 15, 2012-March 10, 2013; Toledo Museum of Art, April 11-July 14, 2013.
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. 74, p. 124, no.12.
Provenance
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Lot 525, Armadale, Victoria, Australia; sold to Will Owen (1952-2015) and Harvey Wagner (1931-2017), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, July 2004; given to present collection, 2009.
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