DJANG'KAWU STORY

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
24 March 2010
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Mathaman Marika

(c.1916 - 1970)
DJANG'KAWU STORY

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

118.0 x 44.0 cm

Estimate: 
$12,000 - 15,000
Provenance

Sandra Le Brun Holmes, Darwin
Jerome Gould, Los Angeles
Private collection
Sotheby's, Sydney, 20 October 2008, lot 80
Private collection, Melbourne

Related works

Djan'kawu creation story, 1959, natural pigments on eucalyptus bark, collaboration between Mathaman Marika, Mawalan Marika, Wandjuk Marika and Woreimo, illustrated in West, M., Yalangbara: art of the Djan'kawu, Charles Darwin University Press, Darwin, 2008, p. 72, and Cochrane, S., Aboriginal art collections: highlights from Australia's public museums and galleries, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2001, p. 41, collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales