Lame Toby Mungatopi (born 1920)

PURUKAPALI, c.1955

natural earth pigments on carved hardwood

98.5 cm height

Created on Melville Island, in the late 1960s
Jerome Gould, Los Angeles
Private collection, USA
Sotheby's, Sydney, 20 October 2008, lot 75
The Luczo Family Collection, USA

For other carvings by the artist see Holmes, S. Le Brun, The Goddess and the Moon Man: The Sacred Art of the Tiwi Aborigines, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995, pp. 34, 36, 40, 51