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ELEAZER NANGUKWIRRK - WAK WAK

ELEAZER NANGUKWIRRK - WAK WAK

SKU: 20391

ELEAZER NANGUKWIRRK

WAK WAK,  2018
139 x 57 cm
Stringybark (Eucalyptus Tetradonta) with Ochre Pigment and PVA Fixative

 

REGION

Maningrida NT

 

PROVENANCE
Maningrida Arts and Culture, NT
Cooee Art Leven, NSW

 

STORY
This painting depicts a sacred site at 'Kurrurldul', an outstation south of Maningrida.

The 'rarrk', or abstract crosshatching, on this work represents the design for the crow totem ancestor called 'Djimarr'. Today this being exists in the form of a rock, which is permanently submerged at the bottom of Kurrurldul Creek. The 'Djimarr' rock in the stream at Kurrurldul is said to move around and call out in a soft hooting tone at night. Both the stone itself and the area around it are considered sacred.

The imagery represents the rock mentioned above at the bottom of Kurrurldul creek, which is the final transmutation of the dreaming ancestor 'Djimarr'. Finally, the pattern used here is also the crow design used in the sacred 'Mardayin' ceremony, which is a large regional patri-moiety ceremony now rarely conducted in central and eastern Arnhem Land.

 

 

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ELEAZER NANGUKWIRRK

    AU$1,600.00Price

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