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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 #:
  215
• Lot Description:
  Majindi
  (circa 1915-?)
  Palm Tree Dreaming (1958)
  natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
  83 x 53 cm
• Provenance:
  Painted at Wadeye (Port Keats), Northern Territory; Private Collection, Melbourne
• Notes:
  This painting bears the original descriptive notes verso that read: "The "Dreamtime" of the Australian Aborigine is the period in which the earth was peopled by ancestral spirits - people, flowers, trees, animals - and here Majindi has painted the "Palm Tree Dreaming". The top part is female, the bottom part male. Creeks are shown on the outside, boomerangs, and a large bird. Four oblong shapes on the extreme outside represent "la la" or tucker."
• Estimate:
  A$6,000 - 8,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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