Artist: Nym Bunduk | Title: Bark from Port Keats | Year: c. 1960 | Medium: Natural Earth Pigments on Bark | Dimensions: 66 x 25.5 cm
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Wadeye (Port Keats), NT
LANGUAGE
Murrinh-Patha
BIOGRAPHY
Nym Banduk was one of the most influential Aboriginal elders of his time, and a leading artist among the Murrinhpatha and other groups who lived in and around the community of Wadeye (Port Keats) in the Fitzmaurice River region south-west of Darwin. He is renowned for his relationship with the eminent anthropologist W E H Stanner, whom he met in 1935 when Stanner accompanied a group of Catholic missionaries to establish a station in the region.
Over the course of nearly five decades, Bandak interpreted his extensive knowledge of Aboriginal culture, society and law for Stanner, allowing the latter to better understand the Aboriginal condition, belief systems, philosophies and aspirations in a changing world. Stanner, in turn, would use the knowledge and understanding he received from Bandak to influence official government policies towards Indigenous people.
REFERENCES
Kimberly Art, VIC
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Wadeye (Port Keats), NT
LANGUAGE
Murrinh-Patha
BIOGRAPHY
Nym Banduk was one of the most influential Aboriginal elders of his time, and a leading artist among the Murrinhpatha and other groups who lived in and around the community of Wadeye (Port Keats) in the Fitzmaurice River region south-west of Darwin. He is renowned for his relationship with the eminent anthropologist W E H Stanner, whom he met in 1935 when Stanner accompanied a group of Catholic missionaries to establish a station in the region.
Over the course of nearly five decades, Bandak interpreted his extensive knowledge of Aboriginal culture, society and law for Stanner, allowing the latter to better understand the Aboriginal condition, belief systems, philosophies and aspirations in a changing world. Stanner, in turn, would use the knowledge and understanding he received from Bandak to influence official government policies towards Indigenous people.
REFERENCES
Kimberly Art, VIC