LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Natural earth pigments on carved ironwood

Measurements:

16.14 in. (41.00 cm.) (height)

Literature:

Jennifer Isaacs,. Tiwi Art/History/Culture , The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2012, p. 29, illus. Cf. For a closely related figure of Tapara by Cardo Kerinua see Lance Bennett, Art of the Dreamtime: The Dorothy Bennett Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art , Kodansha, Tokyo, 1969, p. 144

Provenance:

Executed at Milikapiti (Snake Bay), Melville Island, circa 1960. Dorothy Bennett Private Collection, Sydney. Acquired from the above in 1981. Sotheby's,. Aboriginal Art , Melbourne, 9 July, 2001, lot 25 (AU648). Fiona Brockhoff, Melbourne. = .