Yarrelalim - The Spirit Women in Ngirrmayirriny Country
Phyllis Nakamarra, Gija / Australian, born about 1940
Gija
Warmun
East Kimberley
Western Australia
Australia
2000
Ochres on canvas
Overall: 53 1/8 × 48 1/16 in. (135 × 122 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Will Owen and Harvey Wagner
2009.92.268
Geography
Place Made: Australia, Oceania
Period
21st century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Course History
Environmental Studies 26.01, Soil Ecological Systems, Bala Chaudary, Spring 2023
Anthropology 3.01, Introduction to Anthropology, Charis Ford Morrison Boke, Summer 2023
Environmental Studies 26.01, Soil Ecological Systems, Veer Chaudhary, Spring 2024
Exhibition History
Pigment of Imagination, Class of 1967 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, April 15-August 5, 2022.
Publication History
Stephen Gilchrist, editor, Crossing Cultures, The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Art at the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2012, p. 150, no. 88.
Provenance
Jirrawun Aboriginal Arts, Wyndham, Western Australia, Australia; Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia; sold to Will Owen (1952-2015) and Harvey Wagner (1931-2017), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, date unknown; given to present collection, 2009.
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