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• Auction House:
  Aalders Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Tribal Art Including an Important Collection of Aboriginal Art
• Sale Date:
  22 May 2022 ~ 10am (AEST)
• Lot #:
  89
• Lot Description:
  Wonderful and Large Mokuy Figure,c.1960
  the figure standing with arms by side, finely incised with panels fo line decoration exposing colour, height 90cm
• Notes:
  The general title mokuy covers a number of sculptural figures with different purposes from various Arnhem Land groups. The traditional bound bark figures are in the main mortuary ritual paraphernalia. Others from further east are wood human sculptures with representations of the clan designs of their estate painted on children at the beginning a initiation ceremonies. A strong sculptural tradition exists in North-Eastern and Central Arnhem Land stimulated by contact with balanda (outsiders). The first carved and painted wooden figures were collected from Milingimbi Mission in 1927-28 by anthropologist W. Lloyd Warner, who made the ethnographic study of the Yolngu people. Anthropologist Donald Thomson and mission superintendent Wilbur Chaseling collected sculptures from Yirrkala during the 1930s, and anthropologists Ronald M. Berndt and Charles P. Mountford made collections of carved figures during the 1940s.
• Estimate:
  A$350 - 550
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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