ARTISTS ONCE KNOWN - GUNYAN CRAB

ARTISTS ONCE KNOWN
GUNYAN CRAB,  
38 x 16 cm
Natural Earth Pigments on Bark
 
REGION
Yirrkala NE Arnhem Land, NT
 
PROVENANCE
Private Collection
Cooee Art Leven, NSW 
 
STORY
It is well known that Aboriginal art often depicts images of sacred totems or dreamings of Aboriginal culture. However, the world of the non-sacred also provides a rich source of subject matter for Aboriginal art. Much of the rock art of western Arnhem Land for example features secular topics such as common food animals and plants, depicted because of their economic importance but also merely because of their existence in the environment.
-Christiane Keller
 
 
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ARTISTS ONCE KNOWN