North East Arnhem Land Spirit figure

  • Title
    North East Arnhem Land Spirit figure
  • Artist
    Larrtjanga Ganambarr 1934-2000
  • Location
    Yirrkala, North East Arnhem Land , Northern Territory ,
  • Date
    Early 1960s
  • Size
    29cm (L) x 6cm (W)
  • Price
    $875.00

This sculpture by Larrtjanga Ganambarr is of an ancestral being and was collected in the early 1960s.  It is decorated with natural earth pigments in a classical cross hatched design.  Larrtjanga’s works are held in a number of Australian public institutional collections.

Related Works: O’Ferrall, M., Keepers of the Secrets: Aboriginal Art from Arnhem Land in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1990, p. 111 for a similar depiction of an Ancestral being by the artist

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This sculpture by Larrtjanga Ganambarr is of an ancestral being and was collected in the early 1960s.  It is decorated with natural earth pigments in a classical cross hatched design.  Larrtjanga’s works are held in a number of Australian public institutional collections.

Related Works: O’Ferrall, M., Keepers of the Secrets: Aboriginal Art from Arnhem Land in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1990, p. 111 for a similar depiction of an Ancestral being by the artist

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