Dingoes
1948
- Medium
- earth pigments on Stringybark
- Measurements
- 43.2 × 94.5 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory
- Inscription
- inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.l.: 181
inscribed in ballpoint pen on reverse l.l.: No96 / Grote Is / 13/6/48 - Accession Number
- O.2-1956
- Department
- First Nations Australia
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of the Commonwealth Government, 1956
© Public domain
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Gallery 18
Level 3, NGV Australia - About this work
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In the 1940s, many bark paintings by the Anindilyakwa people of Groote Eylandt were collected and placed in state art collections by the amateur anthropologist and ethnographer Charles Mountford. The background of each of these barks was first painted black with pigment made from the rich manganese deposits that are unique to Groote Eylandt. The works were then painted with figures representing two dingoes.
