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City of Fremantle Art Collection > Records

Aboriginal people meeting first white settlers at the Swan River

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Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri

1979

Overview

Acrylic on canvas on board

Historical information

Mr Ken Colbung described this painting in an interview with Margaret Holroyd on March 28, 1988, "Here we are with both feet on the ground and now we have only one, but we are still hear in peace; we've laid down our kylie and shield, our protection. The area up the waterway of the swan, Beelup, the snake, is name Derbarl Yerrigan."

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-7-880

Item type

Acrylic Paintings

Themes

Art and Design
First Peoples

Material

Width

190 cm

Height or length

76.5000 cm

Keywords

Indigenous Narrative

Place made

Australia

Year

Primary significance criteria

Artistic or aesthetic significance

Historic significance

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Object’s condition or completeness

Rare or representative

Well provenanced

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