Bark painting in 'X-ray art' style of a MIMI spirit, by the artist Dick Murrumurru (Nguleingulei).

Collection type: Object
Description: Bark painting in 'X-ray art' style of a MIMI spirit, by the artist Dick Murrumurru (Nguleingulei).
Geographical reference: Australia
Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > Australia; Northern Territory Western Arnhem Land Oenpelli
Cultural groups: Mengerrdji
Person: Maker Dick Murrumurru; Field collector Howard Morphy; PRM source Howard Morphy
Date / Period: Date made: 1988
Date collected: 1988
Acquisition information: Purchased: 09/1988
Materials and processes: Material Bark Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Painted, Process Stretched, Process Tied
Dimensions: Width: max 310 mm, Length: max 620 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1988.36.6
Research and responses: Dick Murrumurru [Nguleingulei] (1920-1988)
Associated publications: Illustrated in colour as Figure 12 on page 102 of ‘The Pitt Rivers Museum Revisited’, by Catherine Elliott Weinberg, in Tribal Art, Vol. 14, no. 3 (no. 56; Summer 2010), pp. 96–105. Caption (on page 103) reads: 'Fig. 12: Painting of a Mimi spirit hunting turtles, by Nguleingulei Murrumurru (1920-88). Kunwinjku people, Oenpelli (now Gunbalanya), Western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. Bark, pigment. PRM 1988.36.6. (c) Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.' [JC 24 9 2010]