Paddle depicting two ancestral beings in dugout canoe
attributed to Muŋgurrawuy Yunupiŋu
Gumatj clan, Yolŋu people, Northern Territory
c.1905 – 1979
Paddle depicting two ancestral beings in dugout canoe
1948 or 1952
natural ochres on carved wood
Gumatj clan, Yolŋu people, Northern Territory
c.1905 – 1979
Paddle depicting two ancestral beings in dugout canoe
1948 or 1952
natural ochres on carved wood
Currently on display, Gallery 1
- Place made
- Yirrkala, northeast Arnhem Land, Northern Territory
- Medium
- natural ochres on carved wood
- Dimensions
- 135.0 cm (length)
- Credit line
- Gift of Charles P. Mountford 1957
- Accession number
- AA642
- Media category
- Decorative Arts
- Collection area
- Australian decorative arts and design - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander