| 6 Komita with a sand drawing |
| 1940 (vintage print). 255x305mm. |
| Musgrave and Mann Ranges, SA. Reproduced in
AAP; ATC; NAD; Australian Aboriginal Culture (published for UNESCO: second
edition, 1973) and McCulloch: Contemporary Aboriginal Art (1999; incorrectly
dated in the caption). Exhibited in DAA. |
| $5000 |
|
Komita was a skilled artist, not only in making sand drawings of the mythical stories, but in painting designs on cave walls or engraving them on sacred objects of wood or stone.' 'It was a remarkable experience to have known … Komita, who showed me the beauty of the aesthetic life of his tribe' (AAP, pages 60 and 1). |
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