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City of Fremantle Art Collection > Records

Mamoose (Chief Mamoose)

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Dennis Nona

2005

Overview

Etching

Historical information

Exhibited at the Fremantle Arts Centre SFPA 2005. Print acquired from Basil Hall Editions/The Australian Art Print Network

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-7-1152

Item type

Themes

Art and Design
First Peoples

Material

Width

49 cm

Height or length

96 cm

Contextual Information

Chief Mamoose is chosen by the Kwod and is a traditional speaker about custom and law before feasts.

Keywords

Place made

Australia

Year

Primary significance criteria

Artistic or aesthetic significance

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Object’s condition or completeness

Well provenanced

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Indigenous etching of Chief Mamoose. The figure depicting Chief Mamoose is upper centre of the image holding a crocodile in his right hand and what could be a stingray in his left. Below the figure is a blue rectangle filled with various depictions of sea creatures, and on both sides of the rectangle are figures sitting sideways and cross legged

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