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Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art - 27 March 2013  |  Melbourne

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Lot 25
Lipundja Gupapuyngu
(c.1912 - 1968)
MOKOY FIGURE

natural earth pigments on carved and shaped softwood

52.0 cm height


Estimate:
$7,000 - 10,000


Lot Details

Description
Lipundja Gupapuyngu
(c.1912 - 1968)
MOKOY FIGURE

natural earth pigments on carved and shaped softwood

52.0 cm height

Provenance

Private collection, Melbourne

Related works

Wild Honey Figures, 1963, illus. in Ryan, J., Indigenous Art in the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002, p. 52

Produced in central and eastern Arnhem Land, Mokoy figures represent trickster spirits. They incorporate many different types of dead spirits, from being part of a human deceased spirit to aspects of wangar ancestral beings.