Sheet of copper with a large Ernabella design
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- Type
- Artworks
- Place
- Ernabella, South Australia, Australia
- Materials
- Copper
- Collection
- Winifred Hilliard collection no. 3
- Accession number
- 2000.0014.0003
Description
A rectangular artwork made from a sheet of copper, beaten from the reverse with large central 'Ernabella' design. The front has been beaten to create small pock marks as the background of the design. The sheet is slightly irregular and has crumpled corners.
About the collection
The collection comprises a broad range of objects including batiks, pokerwork carvings, paintings and pastel drawings on paper and other art and craft items, bibles and school readers in Pitjantjatjara, drawings by school children, photograph albums, videos and a small number of stone implements. The collection is significant for the depth and range of material associated with a single Aboriginal settlement at Ernabella, now known as Pukatja, its art centre and with Deaconness Winifred Hilliard who was the Arts Advisor to Ernabella between 1954 and 1986. The collection largely dates to this period. Along with other material previously donated by Hilliard, this collection documents the history of Ernabella and the women's art movement there between, but not limited to, 1954 and 1986.
Read live from the Museum's Collection API (12/11/2026, 5:42:14 am). Record last updated by the Museum 2026-02-05. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.