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264: 253: 310:, or sea cucumbers. It is suspected that Yunupingu was quite young when he last interacted with Makassans, since the Australian Government banned other countries from using the resources found on Australian coasts in 1906. However, he did remember meeting Makassan people and for Berndt’s crayon drawing commission, he drew his famous 291:
out the major ancestral narratives of the Yolngu clans. Scougall described these works as "the first time such a collection of bark paintings was made in a pictorial ballad sequence whereas other collections have been essentially sporadic, of a piecemeal nature." The majority of these works are now held in the
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traditional stories and concepts, his innovation greatly diverged from common single-panelled narrative paintings. His painting style can be described as a well-balanced mix of colours dominated by the use of yellow ochre. The human figures he painted tend to be broad-shouldered and have elongated bodies.
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Between 1959 and 1962, Yunupingu produced some of his largest and most significant works for the collector-donor Stuart Scougall, who along with the Art Gallery of New South Wales' assistant director, Tony Tuckson, commissioned a series of monumental bark paintings from the artists of Yirrkala to lay
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During his career as an artist, Yunupingu drew upon ancestral narratives in his paintings and wood carvings. He is known to be one of the artists who spearheaded the “episodic” manner of painting, where stories are painted in a series of panels to show how they unfold over time. While he painted
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Yunupingu was involved in most of the significant moments in Yolngu art history of the twentieth century. He produced a number of fine crayon drawings for the anthropologist
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tracking station at Gurlkurla by Geoff Woods, who was employed as the base manager at a nearby weapons research centre. One work of these works,
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Many of these children would go on to have significant careers as artists, musicians and political leaders, most notably his daughters
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In the late 1960s, Yunupingu was commissioned to produce a series of painting on masonite board to commemorate events involving the
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Australian Aboriginal bark paintings, 1912-1964: exhibition organized by the Institute Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1965
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Aside from ancestral stories, he also produced several paintings depicting the interaction of Yolngu with the
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mines in the Arnhem Land reserve without consulting Yolngu leaders. Furious at the lack of transparency the
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May, Sally K. (2011). "Piecing the History Together: An overview of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition".
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people, who were seafarers that seasonally visited the northern Arnhem Land coast to harvest
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after he arrived in Yirrkala in 1946 and in 1948 created a large number of paintings for
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The Yirrkala panels were discarded by the church in 1974, but were salvaged by the
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Mangarawui, Mungurawi, Mungarawoi, Munggaraui, Mangarawoi, Mungurrawuy, Munggeraui
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through ancestral stories. Consisting of two 4 m (13 ft) sheets of
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Mungurrawuy Yunupingu was born in northeast Arnhem Land around 1905, of the
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held for the Yolngu people, clan elders came together to paint the famous
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in 1978. On 27 February 1998 they were unveiled by then prime minister
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at the Asia Society Galleries in New York City in 1988. Another work,
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of 1963 (to which Yunupingu was a signatory) and the high court case
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Facsimiles of the panels were commissioned as part of the
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He became a senior cultural leader of the Gumatj clan in
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American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land
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Exploring the Legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition
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Index

Yirrkala Church Panels
Bark painting
Yirrkala bark petitions
Galarrwuy Yunupingu
Mandawuy Yunupingu
Barrupu Yunupingu
Gulumbu Yunupingu
Djerrkngu Yunupingu
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu
Nancy Gaymala Yunupingu
Aboriginal Australian
Gumatj
Yolngu
Arnhem Land
Northern Territory
bark paintings
Yirritja
Yirrkala
H.C. "Nugget" Coombs
Reserve Bank of Australia
Gulumbu Yunupingu
Gaymala Yunupingu
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu
Galarrwuy
Mandawuy Yunupingu
Australians of the Year


Ronald Berndt
Charles Mountford

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