Maningrida Arts & Culture Art Centre states: ‘Mayali and Rembarrnga artist Kamarrang Jack Nawilil is a senior member of the Balngarra clan, who lives and works at Bolkjdam, an outstation located near Maningrida community in central Arnhem Land. A song man…
Please see below for full image and details of this stringy-bark wooden sculpture painted in natural ochres
The lorrkon, hollow log ,is made from termite hollowed Stringy-bark tree (Eucalyptus tetadonta) and is decorated with totemic emblems, in this case Saratoga fish. Hollow Logs are known as Lorrkon in the Maningrida area of Central North Arnhem Land and…
Aboriginal Australian memorial poles – known as larrakitj – are hollow coffins created to hold the bones of the dead in secondary burial. Placed in groups on significant sites and painted with clan symbols, they are left to deteriorate with…
