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The time referred to as the time before the first morning has the Dja’kawu (a man and his two sisters) leaving in a canoe to follow the morning star from their residence of Buralku, an island of ancestral dead. read more

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Before the advent of modern communications, transport and rather static community living the bone remains of Yolu dead were after time placed in Larrakitj (hollow logs) as the final stage of mortuary rites. read more

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The Larrakitj had its traditional use for the Yolngu of North east Arnhem Land as an ossuary or bone container erected as a memorial to a dead kinsman up to a decade after death. read more

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A sacred expanse of water behind the Gå]ga] outstation where this larrakitj was produced is referred to as Gulutji. read more

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This painting uses the sacred clan design which denotes the Yirritja moiety Magalili clan identity in a non-figurative way. read more

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The painting on this larrakitj is about Wuyal, the ancestral sugarbag man, an important ancestor of the Marrakulu clan of North East Arnhem Land. read more

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Gurrundul is wife to senior Rirratjiu clansman and artist Wanyubi Marika. read more

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This painting represents Garrimala, a billabong near the artist’s residence, the Dha`wau clan homeland at Gå]ga]. read more

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This is the first painting by Birrala, a young woman of the Gumatj clan. read more

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Trial Bay is located between Caledon bay to the north and above the larger Blue Mud Bay on the western side of the Gulf of Carpentaria. read more

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A sacred expanse of water behind the Gangan outstation where this work was produced is referred to as Gulutji. read more

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This painted surface depicts country close to Raymangirr, on the coast of Arnhem Bay. read more

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A sacred expanse of water behind the Gangan outstation where this work was produced is referred to as Gulutji. read more

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A set of three rocks stand in the mouth of Trial Bay submerged either completely or partially within its waters. read more

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Before the advent of modern communications, transport and rather static community living the bone remains of Yolu dead were after time placed in Larrakitj (hollow logs) as the final stage of mortuary rites. read more

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This Warrukay larrakitj was produced by Gunybi after his bench-marking sellout exhibition at Annandale Galleries Oct 2009. read more

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The painting on this larrakitj depicts country around the artists homeland of Dhuruputjpi. read more

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{ula |urruwuthun (c1936 - 2001) was a senior man of the Munyuku clan who inherited the right to paint Munyuku clan paintings, along with the important title of Djirikay, from his father Djimbaryun. read more

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The Larrakitj had its traditional use for the Yolngu of North east Arnhem Land as an ossuary or bone container erected as a memorial to a dead kinsman up to a decade after death. read more

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In ancestral times, the leaders of Yirritja moiety clans used fire for the first time during a ceremony at |alarrwuy in Gumatj country. read more

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Guwaykuway is a learned elder of the Marrakulu clan from the Dhuwa moiety. read more

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This decorative piece just portrays snakes, frilled neck lizards, butterflies and the like against an in fill decorative background. read more

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This painting was made late in the same year that the artist won the 2009 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award’s Best Bark Painting Catagory. read more

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Gunururr is a daughter of the now deceased artist and ritual specialist Dula Ngurruwuthun (c1936 - 2000). read more

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Baluka is the head man for the Magalili and resides at his beloved homeland Djarrakpi. read more

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This painting represents Garrimala, a billabong near the artists residence, the Dha`wau clan homeland at Gå]ga]. read more

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The totemic significance of fire to the Yunupiu family of the Gumatj clan is paramount. read more

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This painting represents Garrimala, a billabong near the artist’s residence, the Dha`wau clan homeland at Gå]ga]. read more

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Before the advent of modern communications, transport and rather static community living the bone remains of Yolu dead were after time placed in Larrakitj (hollow logs) as the final of mortuary rites. read more