Jimbala, Jeering, and Daiwul Country
Lena Nyadbi, Gija / Australian, born about 1936
Gija
Warmun
East Kimberley
Western Australia
Australia
2001
Ochres on canvas
Overall: 39 3/8 × 55 1/8 in. (100 × 140 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Will Owen and Harvey Wagner
2011.43.54
Geography
Place Made: Australia, Oceania
Period
21st century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Course History
WRIT 5, Indigenous Knowledge and Development, Kenneth Bauer, Winter 2013
ARTH 16, ANTH 50, Australian Aborigional Art, Howard Morphy, Fall 2012
ARTH 16, ANTH 50, Australian Aborigional Art, Howard Morphy, Fall 2012
ARTH 16, ANTH 50, Australian Aborigional Art, Howard Morphy, Fall 2012
ARTH 16, ANTH 50, Australian Aborigional Art, Howard Morphy, Fall 2012
WRIT 5, Nature and Imagination: The Meanings of Place, William Nichols, Fall 2012
SART 29, Photography I, Brian Miller, Fall 2012
SART 30, Photography II, Brian Miller, Fall 2012
SART 25, Painting I, Esme Thompson, Fall 2012
SART 25, Painting I, Enrico Riley, Fall 2012
ANTH 30, Hunters and Gatherers, Nathaniel Dominy, Fall 2012
THEA 28, Dance Composition, Ford Evans, Fall 2012
SART 15, Drawing I, Gerald Auten, Fall 2012
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2012
NAS 42, Gender Issues in Native American Life, Vera Palmer, Fall 2012
Exhibition History
Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 15, 2012-March 10, 2013; Toledo Museum of Art, April 11-July 14, 2013.
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. 151, no. 89.
Provenance
Warmun Art Centre, Kununurra, Western Australia, Australia; sold to Will Owen (1952-2015) and Harvey Wagner (1931-2017), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 9, 2001; given to present collection, 2011.
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