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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  22 Apr 2021 ~ 6.30pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  129
• Lot Description:
  Wukun Wanambi
  (born 1962)
  Untitled (sacred fish larrakitj)
  natural earth pigments on hollow log
  height: 187.5cm (73 5/8in).
• Provenance:
  The Collection of the Late Richard Green, Sydney
• Notes:
  The outside surface of things hides what is inside. I want to share what is hidden. In Yolŋu, understanding the life of the spirit is a circle. The larrakitj is a circle. We are looking for our identity and we search around and around until we find our destiny and we go straight to that circle and join it and become a part of family. We used larrakitj as a coffin but now instead of digging it in the ground we want to show it as art. We believe that the spirit travels through the water and returns to its source and then is born anew. The body dissolves and the bones return to the land as the larrakitj decays. I have wanted to share this understanding with non-Indigenous people for a long time. To show them what is inside. Inside the larrakitj. Inside our destiny. Inside our hearts.' Wukun Wanambi, Unsettled: Stories Within exhibition, 27 November 2015 - 28 March 2016, National Museum of Australia, Canberra (accessed online: www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/unsettled)
• Estimate:
  A$3,000 - 5,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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