BREMER ISLAND TURTLE HUNT, 1965

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
4 April 2012
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MAWALAN MARIKA

(c.1908 - 1967)
BREMER ISLAND TURTLE HUNT, 1965

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

54.0 x 125.0 cm (irregular)

inscribed on distressed label verso: artist's name, date, language group, moiety and descriptive notes (obscured by frame)

Estimate: 
$7,000 - 10,000
Sold for $7,200 (inc. BP) in Auction 24 - 4 April 2012, Melbourne
Provenance

Executed at Yirrkala, March 1965
Collection of James A. Davidson, Melbourne
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 24 July 2007, lot 88
Corporate collection, Melbourne
Joel Fine Art, Melbourne, 3 June 2008, lot 92
Private collection, Melbourne

Related works

The Bremer Island Turtle Man, 1967, in Groger-Wurm, H., 'Australian Aboriginal Bark Paintings and Their Mythological Interpretation: Vol. I, Eastern Arnhem Land', Australian Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, no. 30, 1973, p. 68, pl. 89 (illus.)