Eagle story
2003
Medium
wool, wire, human hair, raffia, gauze, found objects, tjanpi (spinifex), minarri (Woollybutt) (Eucalyptus sp.), wangurmu (Woollybutt) (Eucalyptus sp.), kurtanu (grass)
Measurements
(a) 67.6 × 50.0 × 59.0 cm
(b) 80.0 × 49.8 × 55.0 cm
(c) 77.7 × 38.5 × 73.0 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Supporters and Patrons of Indigenous Art, 2003
© Kantjupayi Benson, courtesy of Tjanpi Desert Weavers, NPY Women's Council
Gallery location
Gallery 3
Ground Level, NGV Australia
About this work
Kanytjupayi Benson’s handwoven figurative works are represenative of her Tjukurpa, ancestral narratives that are connected to her Country and encoded with life lessons. Eagle story warns of domestic violence, centring on an eagle man who kills his first wife, a crow, after she murders his second wife, a gallah.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Papulankutja, Western Australia
Accession Number
2003.668.a-c
Department
First Nations Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation