Click to enlargec.1915 – 1998
- Region
- Kimberley
- Community
- Warmun (Turkey Creek)
- Language group
- Gija (Kija, Gidja, Kitja)
Archbishop Jobst, 1995
natural earth pigments with binders on canvas
65 x 80 cm
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- Provenance
- Field Collected, WA Neil McLeod Fine Arts, Dandenong, Vic Private Collection Vic
- Artwork story
- Queenie was commissioned to paint a series of works about God and her experiences with the missionaries at Warmun. She was involved with the missionaries for many years but also retained her own cultural beliefs. This work depicts Archbishop Jobst from Broome preaching to indigenous people under a timber bower or shade house.