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Mardayin Design
Photo: iocolor, Seattle

Mardayin Design

Date2005
Maker John Mawurndjul Australian Aboriginal, Kuninjku people, Mumeka and Milmilngkan, Western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, born 1952
Object number2019.20.20
Provenance[Annandale Galleries, Annandale, Australia]; Margaret Levi and Robert Kaplan, Seattle, Washington, 2005
Photo CreditPhoto: iocolor, Seattle
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection, May 31 - Sept. 12, 2012 (Nashville, Tenessee, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, June 23 - Oct. 15, 2017; Madison, Wisconsin, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Jan. 26 - Apr. 22, 2018; Austin, Texas, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, June 3 - Sept. 9, 2018; Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, Audain Art Museum, Oct. 5, 2018 - Jan. 28, 2019). Text by Pamela McClusky, Wally Caruana, Lisa Graziose Corrin, and Stephen Gilchrist. No cat. no., p. 153, reproduced pl. 31.
Credit LineGift of Margaret Levi and Robert Kaplan
Dimensions71 5/8 x 20 1/2 in. (182 x 52 cm)
MediumNatural pigments on eucalyptus bark
Lorrkon Hollow Log
John Mawurndjul
2005
Object number: 2019.20.4
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ca. 1986
Object number: 2019.20.18
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Galuma Maymuru
2005
Object number: 2019.20.19
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Wanyubi Marika
2003
Object number: 2005.158
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Baluka Maymuru
2001
Object number: 2005.149
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Pedro Wonaeamirri
2001
Object number: 2019.20.17
John Wilson
1999
Object number: 2005.156
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ca. 1968
Object number: 94.24
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2001
Object number: 2005.157