Motu
Yinimala Gumana, Dhalwangu / Australian, born 1982
Dhalwangu
Yirrkala
Northeast Arnhem Land
Northern Territory
Australia
2006
Natural pigments on eucalyptus bark
Overall: 48 7/16 × 20 1/2 in. (123 × 52 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Will Owen and Harvey Wagner
2009.92.334
Geography
Place Made: Australia, Oceania
Period
21st century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 3, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Summer 2013
Exhibition History
Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Paintings from Yirrkala, Henry Skerritt and Jami Powell, September 3 - December 4, 2022, Luise and Morton Kaish Gallery, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Citrin Family Gallery, Northeast Gallery, Engles Family Gallery, Israel Sack Gallery, Rush Family Gallery, Harteveldt Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
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. 13, Fig 1.11.
Provenance
Buku Larrngay Mulka, Yirrkala, Northern Territory, Australia; Annandale Galleries, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; sold to Will Owen (1952-2015) and Harvey Wagner (1931-2017), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, June 29, 2006; given to present collection, 2009.
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