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==In art== A collection of [[bark painting]]s by [[Mawalan Marika]] entitled ''Djan'kawu story'' (1959) is held by the [[Art Gallery of New South Wales]].<ref name="Art Gallery of NSW">{{cite web | title=Works from the collective title Djan'kawu story | website=Art Gallery of NSW | url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?group_accession=IA64.1959%20-%20IA68.1959 | access-date=18 July 2021}}</ref> ===Major exhibition=== The ''Yalangbara: art of the Djang'kawu'' touring exhibition, instigated by Mawalan Marika's daughter, artist [[Banduk Marika]], and developed with the assistance of other family members and the [[Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory]] at Darwin, opened at the [[National Museum of Australia]] from 7 December 2010. This was the first major survey exhibition of the Marikas' work, and covers around 50 named sites in the Yalangbara peninsula that were traversed by the Djang'kawu journey.<ref name=wam/> It followed a 2008 monograph of the same name, edited by Margie West and produced in partnership with Banduk Marika and other members of the family.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Banduk| last1=Marika |last2=West |first2=Margie |title=Yalangbara : art of the Djang'kawu |date=2008 |publisher=Charles Darwin University Press |location=Darwin, N.T. |isbn=9780980384673 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-8ZdPgAACAAJ | access-date=18 July 2021}}</ref> The exhibition featured not only contemporary prints and other items, but also works produced at the Yirrkala mission in the 1930s, bark paintings dating from the 1950s, drawings in [[crayon]] commissioned by anthropologist [[Ronald Berndt]], and the Djang'kawu digging stick, borrowed from its usual place alongside the [[Yirrkala bark petitions]] in [[Parliament House, Canberra|Parliament House]] in [[Canberra]]. The exhibition also travelled to the [[Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory]] in [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]] and the [[Western Australian Museum]] in [[Perth]] in late 2011 and 2012.<ref>{{cite web | title=Yalangbara: Art of the Djang'kawu | website=[[National Museum of Australia]] | date=29 July 2019 | url=https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/yalangbara | access-date=20 July 2021}}</ref>
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