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Ubirikubiri (Crocodile) headdress
- Artist
- James Eseli
- Date
- 2004
- Medium
- Cotton tree wood, enamel paint, pencil, feathers, plastic, raffia, copper wire, toothpicks, lead pencil, string, fixative, aluminium, glass marbles
- Dimensions
- 17 components: 80 x 55 x 177cm (complete); crocodile: 81 x 179 x 50cm; feathers (10): ranging from 14 x 20.7cm to 24.5 x 21.5cm; birds: 17.5 x 22.7 x 24.3cm, 26.4 x 22.9 x 25.6cm, 10 x 20 x 4.8cm, 8.5 x 21.7 x 5.2cm, 8 x 22 x 4.5cm, 10 x 21 x 4.7cm
- Credit
- Purchased 2005. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Grant
Exhibition history
Exhibition history not yet ingested for Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art. View at source ↗
Cite this work
James Eseli, Ubirikubiri (Crocodile) headdress, 2004, Cotton tree wood, enamel paint, pencil, feathers, plastic, raffia, copper wire, toothpicks, lead pencil, string, fixative, aluminium, glass marbles, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
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https://dartabase.art/cite/qagoma/14725
Purchased 2005. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Grant
Metadata sourced from Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art open data collection
Image rights: unknown