Mani-Luki (Harry Carpenter) Wommatakimmi (1914 - 1980)

BIMA, c.1965

natural earth pigments on carved softwood

47.5 cm height

Created on Melville Island, Northern Territory
Jim Davidson, Melbourne, acquired c.1965
Joel Fine Art, Melbourne, 5 June 2007, lot 43
The Luczo Family Collection, USA

Purukapali, 1960s, in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, illus. in O’Ferrall, M. A., Keepers of the Secrets: Aboriginal Art from Arnhem Land in the Collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1990, pl. 19, p. 30