Untitled, Bangawuy Wanambi

FemaleAustralian3-D (Sculpture)Purchased 2012Lorrkon
Written By Chloe Penn
 

Lorrkon
Provenance: Buku-Larrngay Mulka at Darwin Art Fair, Darwin.
Exhibited: Darwin Art Fair, Darwin 2012.

Lorrkon or hollow log coffins are central to the funeral ceremony practiced by the Kuninjku people of Western Arnhem Land. The hollow logs, which housed the ochred bones of the deceased person, were painted with clan designs and placed into the ground where they were left to decay naturally.

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