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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Aboriginal Art from the Luczo Family Collection, USA
• Sale Date:
  19 Oct 2016 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  22
• Lot Description:
  Lame Toby Mungatopi
  (c.1920 – DECEASED)
  Purukapali, c.1955
  natural earth pigments on carved hardwood
  98.5 cm height
• Provenance:
  Created on Melville Island, in the late 1960s; Jerome Gould, Los Angeles ; Private collection, USA; Sotheby's, Sydney, 20 October 2008, lot 75; The Luczo Family Collection, USA
• Notes:
  For other carvings by the artist see Holmes, S. Le Brun, The Goddess and the Moon Man: The Sacred Art of the Tiwi Aborigines, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995, pp. 34, 36, 40, 51
• Estimate:
  A$12,000 - 18,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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