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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Indigenous Art
• Sale Date:
  25 May 2016 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  78
• Lot Description:
  Owen Yalandja
  born 1960
  Yawk Yawk, 2013
  natural earth pigments on carved kurrajong hardwood
  210.0 cm height
• Provenance:
  Maningrida Arts and Culture, Northern Territory (cat. K190); Paul Johnstone Gallery, Darwin; The McKay Superannuation Fund Art Collection, Brisbane
• Notes:
  This work is accompanied by a certificate from Maningrida Arts and Culture which states: ‘Yawkyawk is a word in the Kunwinjku/Kunwok language of Western Arnhem Land meaning ‘young woman’ and ‘young woman spirit being’. During the time of the creation of landscapes and plants and animals, these ancestral heroes in human form transmutated into their animal forms via a series of various significant events now recorded as oral mythologies. The creation ancestor Yawkyawk travelled the country in human form and changed into the form of Ngalkunburriyaymi as a result of various ancestral adventures.’
• Estimate:
  A$7,000 - 10,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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