Title
Two Ancestors, a dream prior to circumcision
1959
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Two legendary ancestors, a dream prior to circumcision
- Place where the work was made
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Milingimbi
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Central Arnhem Land
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Date
- 1959
- Media category
- Bark painting
- Materials used
- natural pigments on bark
- Dimensions
- 60.0 x 28.0 cm (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Stuart Scougall 1959
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- IA40.1959
- Copyright
- © Estate of Johnny Dayngangan/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Johnny Dayngangan
Works in the collection
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Places
Where the work was made
Milingimbi
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Gamarada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 1996–16 Feb 1997
Art from Milingimbi: taking memories back, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Nov 2016–29 Jan 2017
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE, Steven Miller, Tony Tuckson, James Scougall, Mollie Gowing, Harry Messel, Craig Brush, Ronald Fine, Alison Fine, Gordon Davies, Rosalind Davies, Christopher Hodges, Helen Eager, Rosemary Gow, Sandra Phillips, Daphne Wallace and Ken Watson, Gamarada, Sydney, 1996, 44 (colour illus.).
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Cara Pinchbeck, Art from Milingimbi, ‘Dayngangan’, pg. 72-75, Sydney, 2016, 75 (colour illus.), 141.
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