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Item X 94829 Animal figure, Wapma, Adnyamathanha, Flinders Ranges, Spencer, South Australia, Australia, c.1930

Physical Description

Carved wooden Snake with upper torso is curved upwards. Head is diamond shaped; tail is tapered and pointed. Upper surface of snake is decorated with an incised continuous U shaped design. Head area is darkened with burning. Under -side of snake is plain and undecorated.

Local Name

Wapma

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Collection Names

The Christensen Fund Collection
Collecting Areas

Central and Western and South Australian Ethnographic
Maker

Unrecorded
Date Produced

c.1930
Collector

Mr Robert Edwards
Date Collected

c.1995
Date Made

1930
Maker

Not Recorded
Clan/Language Group

Adnyamathanha
Place Made

Copley Area, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Indigenous Region

Spencer, Australia
Locality

Flinders Ranges, Spencer, South Australia, Australia
Cultural Groups

Adnyamathanha
Object/Medium

Animal figure
Classification

Bunjilaka, Many nations, Animal creations
Category

Indigenous Collections
Discipline

Anthropology
Type of item

Object
Object Measurements

560 mm (Length), 240 mm (Width), 300 mm (Height)
Keywords

Carving

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Item X 94829 Animal figure, Wapma, Adnyamathanha, Flinders Ranges, Spencer, South Australia, Australia, c.1930

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