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Pot: Enalaunga (Echidna) family 2004

Accession No.
2004.145a-b
Date Created
2004
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A
43 x 38.5cm (diam.) (complete); pot: 35.5 x 38.5cm (diam.); lid: 9.5 x 18.5cm (diam.)
Media Category
Ceramic
Secondary Media Category
earthenware
Medium
Earthenware, hand-built terracotta clay with underglaze colours and applied decoration
Place Created
Hermannsburg, NT
Credit Line
Purchased 2004

First I roll the clay, start build the pot and put another coil, build more and more, make big one. Then I finish that clay and think, something I’m gonna do, what’s ‘round near Hermannsburg, There’s lots of echidna ‘round near sandhill. I scrape it, polish it first, then make animals, make echidna. I paint big one first, then put log, then all the babies, and father. Father went look for food, and he bring back and all the little ones coming out. On the lid I put another one, a log with mother one, and two little echidna, one on top, one coming out (from log) and another one coming out other side.

— Judith Pungkarta Inkamala
 

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READ: Old way New way — Hermannsburg Pottery
Detail, Pot: Enalaunga (Echidna) family 2004 INKAMALA, Judith
Detail, Pot: Enalaunga (Echidna) family 2004 INKAMALA, Judith
Detail, Pot: Enalaunga (Echidna) family 2004 INKAMALA, Judith
Detail, Pot: Enalaunga (Echidna) family 2004 INKAMALA, Judith
Detail, Pot: Enalaunga (Echidna) family 2004 INKAMALA, Judith
Detail, Pot: Enalaunga (Echidna) family 2004 INKAMALA, Judith
Detail, Pot: Enalaunga (Echidna) family 2004 INKAMALA, Judith

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Three earthenware pots by with eagles and owls painted on them.
THE HERMANNSBURG SCHOOL

QAGOMA COLLECTION: Hermannsburg Potters

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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

Irene Mbitjana Entata / Arrernte/Luritja people / Australia NT 1946–2014 / Albert and Rex painting (detail) 2003 / Purchased 2003. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / © Irene Mbitjana Entata

‘Namatjira to Now’

Oct 2008 - Feb 2009

Works by (l–r) Garry Namponan, Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, Craig Koomeeta and Jack Bell, installed at QAG for 'Great and Small', July 2025 / © The artists / Photograph: C Callistemon, QAGOMA

'Great and Small'

Jun 2025 - May 2027

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