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      • Aurangnamirri Wommatakimmi (Young Brook) (1920 - 1973) - Tiwi Figure h. 36.5, w.18.5cm
        Nov. 30, 2017

        Aurangnamirri Wommatakimmi (Young Brook) (1920 - 1973) - Tiwi Figure h. 36.5, w.18.5cm

        Est: $1,500 - $2,000

        Aurangnamirri Wommatakimmi (Young Brook) (1920 - 1973) Tiwi Figure carved softwood decorated with natural pigments h. 36.5, w.18.5cm unsigned

        Lawsons
      • AURANGNAMIRRI WOMMATAKIMMI (YOUNG BROOK) CIRCA 1920-1973 | Tapara, The Moon Man
        Sep. 21, 2016

        AURANGNAMIRRI WOMMATAKIMMI (YOUNG BROOK) CIRCA 1920-1973 | Tapara, The Moon Man

        Est: £4,000 - £6,000

        Natural earth pigments on carved ironwood 

        Sotheby's
      • AURANGNAMIRRI WOMMATAKIMMI (YOUNG BROOK) CIRCA 1920-1973 | Untitled, Tapara the Moon Man and Tukimbimi the Owl
        Sep. 21, 2016

        AURANGNAMIRRI WOMMATAKIMMI (YOUNG BROOK) CIRCA 1920-1973 | Untitled, Tapara the Moon Man and Tukimbimi the Owl

        Est: £5,000 - £8,000

        Natural earth pigments on carved wood

        Sotheby's
      • AURANGNAMIRRI WOMMATAKIMMI (YOUNG BROOK) CIRCA 1920-1973 | Untitled
        Sep. 21, 2016

        AURANGNAMIRRI WOMMATAKIMMI (YOUNG BROOK) CIRCA 1920-1973 | Untitled

        Est: £12,000 - £18,000

        Natural earth pigments on carved wood with traces of natural resin

        Sotheby's
      • Aurangnamirri Wommatakimmi (Young Brook) circa 1920-1973 UNTITLED natural earth pigments on carved softwood
        Jul. 20, 2009

        Aurangnamirri Wommatakimmi (Young Brook) circa 1920-1973 UNTITLED natural earth pigments on carved softwood

        Est: $6,000 - $8,000

        natural earth pigments on carved softwood

        Sotheby's
      • AURANGNAMIRRI WOMMATAKIMMI (YOUNG BROOK) CIRCA 1920-1973
        Jul. 31, 2006

        AURANGNAMIRRI WOMMATAKIMMI (YOUNG BROOK) CIRCA 1920-1973

        Est: $10,000 - $15,000

        BIMA C.1968 MEASUREMENTS 7 / 16 eight: 80 cm Natural earth pigments on carved ironwood PROVENANCE Executed on Melville Island circa 1968 Jerome Gould collection, USA Sotheby's, Fine Tribal Art and Aboriginal Paintings, Sydney, 4 December 1994, lot 279 Private collection, Melbourne Cf. Barnes, K., Kiripapurajuwi (Skills of Our Hands): Good Craftsman and Tiwi Art, Kathy Barnes, Darwin, 1999; Berndt, R. M. and E. S. Phillips (eds.), The Australian Aboriginal Heritage, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1973; Holmes, S. Le Brun, The Goddess and the Moon Man: The Sacred Art of the Tiwi Aborigines, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995; O'Ferrall, M. A., Keepers of the Secrets: Aboriginal Art from Arnhem Land in the Collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1990; For a similar figure by the artist see 'Old Tiwi Woman', 1968, in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, illustrated in O'Ferrall, 1990, p.35, plate 33, and in Berndt and Phillips, 1973, plate 174 Bima was the wife of the apical Tiwi ancestor Purukuparli. The couple had a new born child called Jinani. When Bima had an illicit relationship with Purukuparli's brother, Tapara the Moon Man, she neglected Jinani, who died. In his grief, Purukuparli carried his dead son out into the waves and drowned, thus bringing death to the Tiwi people

        Sotheby's
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