Lipundja Gupapuyngu
(1912 - 1968)
MOKOY FIGURE
natural earth pigments on carved and shaped softwood
52.0 cm height
Estimate:
$7,000 - $10,000
lot details
Lipundja Gupapuyngu (1912 - 1968)
MOKOY FIGURE
natural earth pigments on carved and shaped softwood
52.0 cm height
Provenance
Private collection, Melbourne
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.