Tineriba Tribal Gallery

Bukartilla and Tineriba Gallery in Hahndorf, South Australia is an iconic tourist attraction with tribal art from Australia and Papua New Guinea as well as fine art and contemporary art. Visit on your next trip to South Australia.

how it all began

The ‘gallery’ opened unofficially in 1980 with a display of portion of the Manuel Collection of Aboriginal artifacts. This collection had ben assembled over a lifetime by shearing contractor Peter Manual, mainly from the ‘West Darling’ region, but also Australia wide. The first purcahses of contempory Aboriginal art were made in that year from Alan Marshall, recently returned from Papanya working as an accountant.

So the gallery developed, and now is essentially the longest running commerical Aboriginal Art Gallery in Australia.

As the proprietors had many connections with Papua New Guinia, the Gallery also featured exhibitions of Melanesian tribal art, which was presented along side that of Aboriginal artifacts and increasingly as the supply increased, of contemporary Aboriginal paintings.

From the mid 90’s Tineriba Tribal Gallery was operating from 79 Main Street in historic Hahndorf, in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia. However, from 2010 the Gallery operated from specially built premises of 77 Main Street.

It had by this time expanded to such a degree that Tineriba Fine Arts had been developed to look after the accession of Aboriginal paintings and promotion of the artists from many regions across Australia.