Pot: Eeritja (Eagle) 2001

HERMANNSBURG POTTERS - Pottery workshop
INKAMALA, Judith Pungkarta - Potter

Artwork Pot: Eeritja (Eagle) this artwork made of Earthenware, hand-built terracotta clay with underglaze colours, created in 2001-01-01

Accession No.: 2003.020
Date Created: 2001
Gallery location: On display in GOMA MFS Cabinet
Department: Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A: 42 x 36cm (diam.)
Media Category: Ceramic
Secondary Media Category: earthenware
Medium: Earthenware, hand-built terracotta clay with underglaze colours
Place Created: Hermannsburg Potters Studio, Hermannsburg, NT
Credit Line: Purchased 2003. The Queensland Government's special Centenary Fund

This pot shows Australia's largest raptor, the wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax) — one of the world's largest eagles. Before white settlement the wedge-tailed eagle preyed on small ground-dwelling mammals and other birds but the bulk of its prey is now the rabbit, an introduced species.

Detail, Pot: Eeritja (Eagle) 2001 INKAMALA, Judith Pungkarta

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