Click to enlarge- Region
- Torres Strait Islands
- Community
- Murray Island (Mer)
- Language group
- Meriam Mir
Triton - Pearl & Trochus Shell Luggers, 2011
wood, cotton twine, fabric and other mixed media
22 x 22 x 11 cm
- Provenance
- Commissioned directly from the artist in Cairns Far North Queensland by Adrian Newstead Executive Director of Coo-ee Gallery.
- Exhibited
- Metamorphosis Indigenous Sculpture, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW, October 2011
- Artwork story
- This is a replica of the Triton, one of the 400 pearling and Trochus shell lugers that plied the waters of the Torres Strait Islands until decommissioned in the 1990’s.