Important Aboriginal Art - 25 March 2009 | Melbourne
Lot 51
John Mawurndjul
born 1952
LORRKON, 2006
natural earth pigments and PVC fixative on hollowed log
134.0 x 21.0 cm
Estimate:
$22,000 - 28,000
Lot sold: $21,600 (inc. BP)
Lot Details
Description
John Mawurndjul
born 1952
LORRKON, 2006
natural earth pigments and PVC fixative on hollowed log
134.0 x 21.0 cm
Provenance
Maningrida Arts and Culture, Northern Territory
Private collection, Queensland
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Maningrida Arts and Culture, Northern Territory (catalogue number 4331-06).
Catalogue text
The certificate states in part, ‘The Lorrkon or bone coffin ceremony was the final ceremony in a sequence of mortuary rituals celebrated by the people of Arnhem Land. This ceremony involves the placing of the deceased's bones into a hollow log which was decorated with painted clan designs and ceremonially placed into the ground where it remained until it slowly decayed over many years...’