Larrakitj : Kerry Stokes Collection

AUSTRALIAN ART / ABORIGINAL

 SCARCE This beautifully illustrated book features photos of the artworks and the artists with comprehensive biographies and stunning images of Arnhem Land.

In the proudly ancient Yolngu heartlands larrakitj were used to contain the bones of the deceased during mortuary ceremonies. Today, artists from Arnhem Land’s Buku-Larrnggay Mulka arts centre produce modern larrakitj for the education of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.

Collected for a decade, the larrakitj collection of 110 Yolngu memorial poles from north-east Arnhem form a special part of the Kerry Stokes collection. This beautifully illustrated book features photos of the artworks and the artists with comprehensive biographies and stunning images of Arnhem Land.

“The Kerry Stokes Collection is based in Perth, Western Australia. Indigenous art occupies an important place in the contemporary spectrum of the Kerry Stokes Collection. Starting in 2001 and continuing for a decade, the unique Larrakitj collection of 110 Yolngu memorial poles from north-east Arnhem Land forms a special part of the Collection.”

• Preface
• Introduction
• Maps
• Essays
• The works
• The artists.
• Project Coordinator: Anne Marie Brody in association with Buku-Larrnggay Mulka, Yirrkala Arts Centre, with words of art documentation by Howard Morphy. Landscale photography and artists’ portraits by Peter Eve.
• Includes bibliographical references.
• Stokes, Kerry — Art collections
• Graveposts — Northern Territory — Arnhem Land
• Art, Aboriginal Australian — Western Australia — Perth — Exhibitions
• Artists, Aboriginal Australian — Northern Territory — Arnhem Land
• Yolngu (Australian people) — Funeral customs and rites — Northern Territory — Arnhem Land
• Funeral rites and ceremonies — Northern Territory — Arnhem Land
• Yolngu people (NT SD53)
• Death – Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
• Art – Painting – Bark
• Art – Exhibitions
• Death – Mortuary / funeral ceremonies – Mortuary objects – Coffins – Log coffins
• Yirrkala (East Arnhem Land SD53-04)
• Australian
• #150923
• First Edition
• 332 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, col. ports. ; 31 cm.