Artist: Bakuḻaŋay Marawili, Bakulanay Marawili
Museum: Museum - Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (Magnt)
Technique: Pigment
The significance of this work resides at two levels. Firstly, the artist is an important clan leader for the Madarrpa whose homeland is centred at Baniyala. He is the son of Mundukul and brother to Watjinbuy and Ngulwurr. Although not as well known as some of his peers, he has been represented in exhibitions since the 1970s and is represented in the major exhibition Saltwater acquired by the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney. The painting itself is important as it references the early contact with Makassan fishers through the shaping of the bark as a sail. This is highly unusual but typical of Bakulangay
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