Nyurpaya design from Ernabella

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Type: Pastel drawings
Place: Ernabella, South Australia, Australia
Materials: Paper, Pastel
Collection: Winifred Hilliard collection no. 3
Accession number: 2000.0014.0584

Description

Multi coloured drawing on dark grey paper and grouped in envelope titled - "NYURPAYA". The drawing has a tree motif that has an orange trunk with branches that have ball shapes on their ends. There is a rotund figure with a red dress and green legs, holding a green container. On the right there is a smaller figure with a multi coloured bodice and orange legs. Above the figures are four multi coloured balls. Signed - "Amanjinjo".

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.

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