Serpent with eggs
(c. 1980)

Sadler Milidj

Medium: earth pigments on Stringybark (Eucalyptus sp.)
Measurements: 101.5 × 51.0 cm
Place/s of Execution: Kunbarllanjnja (Oenpelli), Northern Territory
Accession Number: 2004.100
Department: First Nations Australia
Credit Line: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through the NGV Foundation by Judith and Leon Gorr, Fellows, 2004
© The Estate of Sadler Milidj
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
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Gallery location: Not on display
Physical description: The work depicts a serpent with twenty three eggs. It is characteristic of Kunwinjku style that it is unadorned emerging from a plain red surface. Two shades of red and white pigment are utilised.