Context (CMS Context)
A close image of three potent museum artifacts, displaying considerable attention to their fibre components and decoration, yet also highly textured and tangible. An intriguing counterpoint to the European printed engraving genre in which indigenous objects are represented, typically more clinically, in the style of natural history specimens. While it appears odd that Wonaeamirri cuts the edges of pieces off, in this image, this approached was perhaps motivated by an interest in getting close to engage with the physicality and the details of the ancestral objects.
Like Mungatopi's 'Objects used in Kulama ceremony', a suggestive print and a thought-provoking one in the context of an anthropology museum.
and elders.
[Taken from the application to the Renew scheme in the case for acquisition]
Event Date 13/8/2013
Author: Remke van der Velden

Context (CMS Context)
Drawn on the plate by the Wonaeamirri (1974-) from Tiwi, Australia and printed in an edition of 30, plus proofs, by APW Senior Printer Martin King at APW, Melbourne, 2000. Reference to text and photographs of Pedro with these objects at the South Australian Museum in the publication 'place made: Australian Print Workshop' (page 93-97) published by the National Gallery of Australia, 2004. This work was reproduced (full-page) in the publication: 'Islands in the Sun' (page 19) published by the National Gallery of Australia, 2001.
Event Date 13/8/2013
Author: Remke van der Velden

Context (CMS Context)
Presented by The Art Fund and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. An acquisition project to build a collection of modern and contemporary work on paper from Australia, Canada and South Africa was undertaken over 2011-13 with the support of a grant under The Art Fund's RENEW programme. The collection was developed with the expert advice and generous assistance of Annie Coombes and Norman Vorano in relation to South African and Inuit artists respectively. Khadija Carroll, Anita Herle and Diana Wood Conroy also contributed to the selection process. Obtained from Australian Print Workshop, 210 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Victoria, 3065, Australia. Acquired on 30 July 2013. Arrived on 8/8/2013.
Event Date 13/8/2013
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Etching by Pedro Wonaeamirri, titled 'Pukumani Objects', 2000. Edition number 1/30. Etching printed in one colour, from one copper plate. Original limited edtion work on paper, signed by the artist. Condition: Good.
Event Date 13/8/2013
Author: maa

Conservation (Assessment Only)
CON.2017.3704 | Assessment Only
Event Date 24/1/2017
Author: Rachel Howie

Loan (Exhibition)
Musée d'ethnographie de Genève, 01/04/2017 to 31/01/2018, The Arts of Aboriginal Australia (provisional title)
Event Date 1/4/2017
Author: Remke Velden