LORRKON, 2006

Part 2: Important Aboriginal Art
Melbourne
27 November 2013
155

JIMMY NGALAKURN

born 1946
LORRKON, 2006

natural earth pigments on hollow log

221.0 x 15.0 cm

Private sale
Provenance

Manigrida Arts and Culture, Northern Territory (cat. 5000-06)
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne

Catalogue text

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Manigrida Arts and Culture which states in part: 'The Lorrkon or bone coffin ceremony was the final ceremony in a sequence of mortuary rituals celebrated the people of Arnhem Land. This ceremony involved the placing of the deceased bones into a hollow log which was decorated with painted clan designs and ceremonially placed into the ground where it remained until it slowly decayed over many years. The log is made from a termite hollowed stringybark tree (Eucalyptus tetradonta) and is decorated with totemic emblems.'