
Merryn Schriever
Managing Director, Australia
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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.'