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Birrikitji Gumana

Header: Birrikitji Gumana
Also known as: Birrikitji Gumana; primary name: Gumana, Birrikitji
Details: individual; painter/draughtsman; chief/native leader; Australian; Indigenous Australian; Male
Life dates: c.1895-1982
Biography: Was a leader of the Yolgnu people of northeastern Arnhem Land, Australia and father of another famous bark painter, Gawirrin Gumana, born 1930. He gave evidence at the Yirrkala land case in 1970 and was described then as the oldest living person at Yirrkala and head of the Dhalwangu clan.