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  important aboriginal art auction • melbourne • 25 march 2009

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021 JIMMY AN.GUNGUNA
Wangarra Spirits, 2002
born 1935
natural earth pigments on carved softwood
138.0 x 13.0 cm and 190.0 x 21.0 cm


ESTIMATE: $10,000 – 12,000 (2)

PROVENANCE
Maningrida Arts and Culture, Northern Territory
Private collection, Melbourne

These works are accompanied by certificates of authenticity from Maningrida Arts and Culture, Northern Territory (catalogue numbers 6439 02 / 6703 02 respectively). The certificate states in part, 'Wangarra is a word in the Burarra language of central north Arnhem Land used to describe spiritual beings similar in some respects to the English concept of ghost or bogymen. Wangarra is a generic term which can include both spirit beings which continually inhabit certain sites or objects but can also mean the spirit of a recently deceased person. Although these two classes of spirits can be referred to as Wangarra they should not be confused as the same beings.'


 
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