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Banumbirr (Morning Star pole) 1998

Accession No.
2010.551
Date Created
1998
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A
180 x 17cm (diam.)
Media Category
Sculpture
Secondary Media Category
wood
Medium
Wood, bark fibre string, cotton thread, feathers, native beeswax, natural pigments
Credit Line
Purchased 2010 with funds raised through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Appeal

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© Henry Balang Gambika Nupurra/Copyright Agency

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A detail view of orange, green, black and white feathers that form part of a Morning Star pole design
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Gurruwiwi: Morning Star poles

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Exhibitions featuring this object

A view of Arthur Koo-ekka Pambegan Jr's Flying Fox Story Place 2002–03, installed at the entrance to 'My Country', GOMA, July 2013 / © Estate of the artist / Photograph: M Sherwood, QAGOMA

‘My Country’

Jun 2013 - Oct 2013

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