PURUKAPALI, c.1955
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LAME TOBY MUNGATOPI
(c.1920 – DECEASED)
PURUKAPALI, c.1955
natural earth pigments on carved hardwood
98.5 cm height
Estimate:
$12,000 – 18,000
Sold for $7,320 (inc. BP) in Auction 45 - 19 October 2016, Melbourne
Provenance
Created on Melville Island, in the late 1960s
Jerome Gould, Los Angeles
Private collection, USA
Sotheby's, Sydney, 20 October 2008, lot 75
The Luczo Family Collection, USA
Related works
For other carvings by the artist see Holmes, S. Le Brun, The Goddess and the Moon Man: The Sacred Art of the Tiwi Aborigines, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995, pp. 34, 36, 40, 51