UNTITLED, (KUNMANGGUR-THE BRINGER OF LIFE), 1975

Important Aboriginal Art
Melbourne
25 March 2009
119

BOBYIN NONGAH

UNTITLED, (KUNMANGGUR-THE BRINGER OF LIFE), 1975

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

68.5 x 32.0 cm

inscribed verso: artist's name, location and date

Estimate: 
$6,000 - $8,000
Provenance

Painted for the Port Keats Mission,Wadeye (Port Keats) in 1975
Lawsons, Sydney, 24 May 1999, lot 243
Private collection, Melbourne

Literature

Allen, Louis A., Time Before Morning; Art and Myth of the Australian Aborigines, Thomas Y Crowell Company, New York, 1975, pp. 81–88