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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art Auction
• Sale Date:
  27 Mar 2013 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  25
• Lot Description:
  Lipundja Gupapuyngu
  c1912 – 1968
  Mokoy Figure
  natural earth pigments on carved and shaped softwood
  52.0 cm height
• Provenance:
  Private collection, Melbourne
• Notes:
  Related Works: Wild Honey Figures, 1963, illus. in Ryan, J., Indigenous Art in the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002, p. 52. Produced in central and eastern Arnhem Land, Mokoy figures represent trickster spirits. They incorporate many different types of dead spirits, from being part of a human deceased spirit to aspects of wangar ancestral beings.
• Estimate:
  A$7,000 - 10,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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