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1925 – 1994
- Region
- Arnhem Land
- Community
- Maningrida
- Language group
- Gurrgoni (Gurr-goni)
Hollow Log Coffin (Lorrkon), 1975
natural earth pigments on Stringybark (Eucalyptus tetradonta)
160 x 25 cm
$4,500
- Provenance
- bought at the Myers exhibition in 1978 Private Collection NSW
- Artwork story
- Hollow log coffins are central to the funeral ceremony practiced by the people of 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. The thin and delicate rarrk (crosshatching) reverberates with the power of ancestral beings who inhabit Arnhem Land.