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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Australian Indigenous & Oceanic Art
• Sale Date:
  22 Jul 2014 ~ 6.30pm (Part 1 - Lots 1 - 198)
  23 Jul 2014 ~ 2.30pm (Part 2 - Lots 199 - 331)
• Lot #:
  31
• Lot Description:
  Cardo Kerinauia (Tiyantingalayang)
  (1892-1964)
  Purukapali and Bima (1959)
  carved ironwood and natural earth pigments
  71 cm; 71.3 cm high (2)
• Provenance:
  Executed at Paru, Melville Island; Henri-Maurice Berney, Switzerland(the Anglo-Swiss Trans-Australia Expedition) (1959); Private Collection, Western Australia
• Notes:
  A copy of the book 27,000 miles through Australia by Victor B Cranley which includes illustrations by Henri-Maurice Berney is sold with this lot. Henri-Maurice Berney is a renowned photographer, journalist and film producer who has travelled to more than 180 countries. In 1959, Victor Cranley and Berney led a team of six assistants (along with 3 tons of photographic and sound equipment) to Australia - known as the Anglo-Swiss trans-Australia Expedition. The result of his explorations were published in 1965 with contributions by famous Australians such as George Munster, Mark Oliphant and Geoffrey Blainey in a book titled - 27,000 Miles through Australia. Cardo Kerinauia, perhaps the most famous of Tiwi artists, is credited with the introduction of carving human figures. It is believed that he first carved a figure in the 1920s after seeing other examples in Darwin. Cardo was, for a period, employed on the coastal vessels, Geranium and Moresby, and was one of the best travelled Tiwi of his time. In 1954, accompanied by co-performers Aloysius Tipulmeeingi and Allie Miller Uraputawai Mungatopi, he travelled to Toowoomba to dance before Queen Elizabeth II on her triumphant first tour of Australia. Cardo may have carved for Charles Mountford in 1954, although he is not identified in the photographs Mountford used to illustrate his book, which show five men cutting and painting tutini. One dancer, a 'fully initiated' man who may have been Cardo or Allie Miller, describes dancing for the Queen: 'The Government plane flew me to Brisbane to see the Queen. It flew through the clouds. I went into the pilot's room in the front of the plane and the wireless told them Brisbane was only seven miles away.'1 1 Jennifer Isaacs, Tiwi: Art / History / Culture, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2013, p. 132
• Estimate:
  A$12,000 - 18,000
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Art

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