Pot: Mission days 2005

HERMANNSBURG POTTERS - Pottery workshop
ENTATA, Irene Mbitjana - Potter

Artwork Pot: Mission days this artwork made of Earthenware, hand-built terracotta clay with underglaze colours and applied decoration, created in 2005-01-01

Accession No.: 2006.028a-b
Date Created: 2005
Gallery location: Not on public display
Department: Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A: 41.5 x 30cm (diam.) (complete); pot: 28 x 30cm (diam.); lid: 14 x 8cm (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 2005

Irene Entata often remembers times gone by, which she refers to as the ‘Mission Days’. Many of her pots show the old white mission buildings, which are now separated from the rest of the community as the Hermannsburg Historical Precinct.

Here women and their babies are shown lining up for Sunday church service. The men wait separately, away from the women. The separation of men and women was initiated by the missionaries who preferred to teach males and females separately.

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