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Pot: Mission days 2005

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

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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© Irene Mbitjana Entata

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Stories featuring this object

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 from Rona Rubuntja's 'Bush tucker' series 2009 / © Rona Rubuntja/Copyright Agency / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

'Ingkwia Tjaiya, Lyaartinya Tjaiya (Old Way, New Way)'

May 2025 - Nov 2025

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