Click to enlarge- Region
- Darwin/Katherine, Daly & Victoria River
- Community
- Nauiyu (Daly River)
- Language group
- Murrinh-Patha
Skinny Fish, 1991
natural earth pigments on canvas
40 x 60 cm (Frame: 43 x 63 cm)
$1,400
- Provenance
- Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra, NT Private Collection NSW Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW
- Artwork story
- This painting shows beach country near Port Keats. At the centre is the big water hole that remains when the tide goes out. One of the good eating fish caught in these holes is referred to as the "Skinny Fish" or Ku Pirdi.