acrylic painting in the style of Aboriginal Australian bark paintings (Tiwi and Arnhem Land influences), multicolored dots, lines, and crosshatching: depiction of a large Dugong in side profile
#WorldDugongDay :
Susan Wanji Wanji (b.1955, active Melville Island, NT, Australia)
#Dugong, 1983
Acrylic on paper
43 x 64 cm (16.9 x 25.2 in.)
www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Dugo...
#IndigenousArt #FirstNationsArt #AboriginalArt
Resharing for #WorldDugongDay
Resharing for #WorldDugongDay
Resharing for #WorldDugongDay
An historic illustration of a dugong resting on a sandy bank of a river, its tail just still dipping in the water.
Happy #WorldDugongDay! Dugongs are strictly marine mammals and do not come on land. This Dugong is from "Johnson's Household Book of Nature" (1880) via
@librarycongress.bsky.social www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39742211
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digital scan of the original book plate, hand-colored illustration of a single dark grey dugong specimen in side profile on blank background captioned beneath as "Indian Dugong. Halicora Dugung. F. Cuv."
#WorldDugongDay:
Plate 23 in John Edward Gray’s _Illustrations of Indian Zoology_, V. 2, 1833-4. "Indian Dugong, Halicora Dugung" (now Dugong, Dugong dugon). Hand-colored lithograph of an original illustration by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (English, 1807-94).
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official museum photo of the object on gradient grey background: bronze dugong sculpture, covered in traditional motifs and with 8 mother-of-pearl disc inlays "Inscribed with traditional motifs and pearl shell, Kisay Dhangal reflects the life cycle and feeding patterns of the dhangal (dugong) in the Torres Strait Islands. The dhangal is captured in the position known as San Tidayk, in Kala Lagaw Ya language which marks the moment the mammal flips its tail to dive down and graze on the sea grass beds. A marine dust trail between the tail and figure of the moon emphasizes how lunar cycles determine dugong feeding and mating habits."
For #WorldDugongDay:
Kisay Dhangal, 2016
Alick Tipoti (Torres Strait: Badhu Island, Kala Lagaw Ya, b.1975)
Sculpture, bronze with mother-of-pearl inlay
194 × 202 × 102 cm, 280 kg
Australian National Maritime Museum 00054952:
collections.sea.museum/objects/2003...
#IndigenousArt
photo of the sculpture in side profile on white background: a single light grey dugong swimming over aquatic vegetation, on an oval wooden base
It's #WorldDugongDay! #DYK the #dugong is the only surviving Sirenian cousin of the #manatees; its closest modern relative, Steller's Sea Cow, was hunted to extinction in the 18th century. 😢
Louis Paul Jonas (USA, 1894-1971)
Dugong sculpture, H7 x W14 x D7.25 in.
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Happy #WorldDugongDay @BonnConvention!
