Walka design from Ernabella

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Type: Pastel drawings
Date: 1954 - 1986
Place: Ernabella, South Australia, Australia
Materials: Paper, Pastel
Collection: Winifred Hilliard collection no. 3
Accession number: 2000.0014.0823

Description

Mulit coloured abstract design on a grey ground. The design is composed of several irregular forms which touch to create a compact composition. The forms are outlined with a thin black line and the ground shows through. They are further outlined by bands of green, red, yellow and ochre which terminate in points. At the lower edge and upper right corner are two forms with deep zig-zag edges, and in the lower right corner is a large circle. Signed along lower edge.

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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