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 Larrakitj to the Yolngu speaking people of North East Arnhem Land. Stringy-bark trees, hollowed out by termites, are prepared for painting on by stripping of their bark and the surfaced smoothed for their natural ochre decoration into clan group designs.
Lorrkon surfaces were traditionally used to create images for ceremony, a description is below, but now used as contemporary mark-making surfaces that relate to Indigenous culture for particular language groups of people. The artist,
Jimmy Ngalakurn, is a Burarra speaker and lives in and around then Maningrida area of Northern Central Arnhem Land.