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Lot 6

Timothy Cook
(born 1958)
Kulama, 2013

14 November 2018, 18:00 AEDT
Sydney, Woollahra

Sold for AU$3,050 inc. premium

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Timothy Cook (born 1958)

Kulama, 2013
natural earth pigments on paper
105.0 x 75.0cm (41 5/16 x 29 1/2in).

Footnotes

PROVENANCE
Jilamara Arts and Crafts, Northern Territory (cat.353-13)
Seva Frangos Art, Perth
Private collection, Sydney

EXHIBITED
The World is not a Foreign Land, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, 6 March - 6 July 2014; then touring through to 2016

The accompanying Jilamara Arts and Crafts documentation reads: 'The Kulama Ceremony is performed in the late wet season (March-April) when a ring appears around the moon. Kulama is a traditional initiation for young men which coincides with the harvest of a certain wild yam species. Elders of both sexes sing and dance for three days welcoming the boys into adulthood. The boy is then renamed with his true man's name.'

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