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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Australian Indigenous & Oceanic Art
• Sale Date:
  22 Jul 2014 ~ 6.30pm (Part 1 - Lots 1 - 198)
  23 Jul 2014 ~ 2.30pm (Part 2 - Lots 199 - 331)
• Lot #:
  70
• Lot Description:
  Gali Yalkarriwuy
  (born circa 1942)
  Banumbirr (Five Morning Star Poles) (2007)
  natural earth pigments on carved wood, bush string and feathers
  144 cm; 186 cm; 196 cm; 199 cm; 218 cm high (5)
• Provenance:
  Executed at Galiwin'ku (Elcho Island), North East Arnhem Land ; Elcho Island Art & Craft, Northern Territory (07-0059; 07-0423; 07-0130; 07-0426; 07-0145); Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne; Private Collection, Melbourne
• Notes:
  These Morning Star Poles are sold with a Elcho Island Art & Craft certificate that reads, "This Morning Star (Banumbirr) Pole comes from the artist's father's traditional homeland of Ngaypinya. The Banumbirr is sacred to the Dhawa clans of the Yolngu people. The Banumbirr is very bright and tracks across the Arnhem Land and sets in the west just before the dawn. At this time the light is changing rapidly. There is the darkness of the night, punctuated with the reflections of the Morning Star on leaves of the trees, together with the distant glow of the dawn and fading of the other stars in the sky. The feathers at the top of the pole represent the Banumbirr Star. Further down the pole the white and coloured feathers represent the new life given to the plant, which is also representative of new life for the people. The bands of different colours of ochre represent the changing light of the early morning, with the black being the night, the yellow and the red being the coming dawn and the white being the rays of sunlight and it's reflection on the trees. The imagery on the pole symbolise the artist's clan and totem, the yam named riny'tjangu."
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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