Garuwi
Language:
Australian:
Gur-roo-ee
English JS Main:
Garuwi
English:
Head-and-shoulders portrait of a man named as "Gur-roo-ee". He is depicted with his head turned slightly to the left and his mouth open to show a missing front tooth, the sign of an initiated man (see R.J. Lampert in Wheeler and Smith (eds), 1988, p.25). His right hand is resting on a pole held in front of his body. He has short, neat hair and a light beard, and his chest and upper arms are marked with cicatrices.
The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category:
name of person
Source:
Smith & Wheeler
Page:
22
Line:
4
Respelt:
Guru-wi
Part of speech:
noun
Source Details:
Smith, Bernard and Wheeler, Alwyne, 1988. The Art of the First Fleet & other early Australian Drawings. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, New Haven amd London, in association with the Australian Academy for the Humanitioes and the British Museum (Natural History). 256 pp.
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Comment:
Watling Drawing - no. 37: Portrait of "Gur-roo-ee" / Thomas Watling]