Lot 22: LAME TOBY MUNGATOPI, (c.1920 – DECEASED), PURUKAPALI, c.1955, natural earth pigments on carved hardwood

LAME TOBY MUNGATOPI, (c.1920 – DECEASED), PURUKAPALI, c.1955, natural earth pigments on carved hardwood

DIMENSIONS:
98.5 cm height

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 WORK:
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