NGARRT - SHORT-NECKED FRESHWATER TORTOISE

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
18 May 2011
95

JIMMY NJIMINJUMA

(1945 - 2004)
NGARRT - SHORT-NECKED FRESHWATER TORTOISE

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

129.5 x 74.0 cm

Estimate: 
$3,000 - 4,000
Provenance

Maningrida Arts and Culture,
Northern Territory (label attached verso)
Private collection, Melbourne

The attached Maningrida Arts and Culture label reads: 'The artist has painted totemic creator of his clan lands at Kuruldu - Ngarrt - Short-necked freshwater tortoise’.