Drawing on paper by Neville Poulson Japangardi, Yuendumu NT - from the story 'How the animals were divided'

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Type: Drawings
Date: 1974
Place: Kormilda College, Berrimah, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia; Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Australia
Materials: Ink, Paint - non specific, Paper
Collection: Aboriginal Arts Board collection no. 2
Accession number: 1991.0024.3409

Description

Gouache, felt-tip pen on paper. Landscape with palms, bark shelters on stilts, & various native animals by a river. Proposed illustration for the book 'Djugurba: Tales from the Spirit Time' ANU Press, Canberra, 1974. Location: Yuendumu, via Alice Springs, NT.

Djugurba: Tales from the Spirit Time', first published in 1974, was a book of paintings and stories created by Aboriginal students from the Northern Territory who were training to be teachers at Kormilda residential college in Darwin. The book was launched in Canberra by Senator Cavangh, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, in September 1974, Mike Gray, who was in charge of teacher training at Kormilda, also helped produce the book. A year later Gray went on to coordinate the Aboriginal children's history of Australia project, which resulted in Aboriginal children from nearly 50 schools across Australia creating more than 3380 drawings and paintings on paper. This collection is now held by the National Museum of Australia.

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