Merryn Schriever
Managing Director, Australia
Lot 38
Pulya Tjamiwa Taylor(born 1931)Tjilkamatta (Echidna), 1988
19 November 2017, 16:00 AEDT
Melbourne, ArmadaleSold for AU$3,660 inc. premium
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Pulya Tjamiwa Taylor (born 1931)
Tjilkamatta (Echidna), 1988
pokerwork on river red gum wood
length: 55.0cm (21 5/8in)., width: 23.0cm (9 1/16in).
The accompanying tag identifies the artist's language group, area and date of execution: Yankunytjatjara / Mutitjulu (Ayers Rock) / 28/7/88
IGNATIA DJANGHARA (BORN CIRCA 1930-)
bark container, mid 1970s
cane, string, natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
height: 30.0cm (11 13/16in)., diameter: 26.0cm (10 1/4in).
pokerwork on river red gum wood
length: 55.0cm (21 5/8in)., width: 23.0cm (9 1/16in).
The accompanying tag identifies the artist's language group, area and date of execution: Yankunytjatjara / Mutitjulu (Ayers Rock) / 28/7/88
IGNATIA DJANGHARA (BORN CIRCA 1930-)
bark container, mid 1970s
cane, string, natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
height: 30.0cm (11 13/16in)., diameter: 26.0cm (10 1/4in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE
The Estate of Mary Macha AM, Perth
RELATED WORKS
There are a number of bark containers (buckets) in public collections including the Western Australian Museum, Perth, the National Museum Australia, Canberra the Brooklyn Museum, United States of America and the British Museum, United Kingdom.
The Kaiara children Wanjina rock paintings at Wary Bay, Western Australia, probably dating from the 19th century, are thought to be depicted with water containers (Mike Donaldson, Kimberley Rock Art, Volume One: Mitchell Plateau Area, Wildrocks Publications, Western Australia, 2012, p.514 (illus.)
As D.S. Davidson described in an 1937 article for the Journal of Polynesian Society, the bark bucket originates from the Kimberley coast and "The bark-bucket suitable for water or as a general carrier is made of two pieces of paperbark. One of rectangular shape is bent into a cylinder and the overlapping ends stitched together; the other, circular in shape, is sewn in as the bottom. All seams are gummed. A string handle is laced through holes on opposite sides of the rim. The appearance of this type along the Kimberley coast suggests the possibility of derivation from outside the continent, improbable as it may appear" ('Transport and receptacles in Aboriginal Australia', Journal of Polynesian Society, Vol.46, No.184, p.184).