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Lot 49

Nawurapu Wunungmurra
(circa 1952-2018)
Mokuys, 2008-2010 height: 203.0cm, 182.0cm, 154.0cm (3)

2 December 2025, 18:00 AEDT
Sydney

AU$6,000 - AU$9,000

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Nawurapu Wunungmurra (circa 1952-2018)

Mokuys, 2008-2010
natural earth pigments on wood
height: 203.0cm, 182.0cm, 154.0cm (3)

Footnotes

PROVENANCE
Buku-Larrngay Mulka, Yirrkala (label attached to one example, cat. 3901F)
Annandale Galleries, Sydney
The Sarick Collection, Canada

All three examples accompanied by individual documentation from Buku-Larrngay Mulka which read,

'The mokuy or nanuk (spirits) come in together, Dhuwa and Yiritja to the sacred ground called Balambala, past Gangan, the other side for all the mokuy to get together. The spirits go there and that's where they make the yidaki sound. It's like showing Yukuwa (sacred yam emblem) and Morning Star feathers - they are different. Like same goes with yidaki, different sounds for Yirritja and Dhuwa. The Yirritja and Dhuwa play yidaki to call in the Mokuy to the same ground Balambala. The Yirritja mokuy come in on the birds, djilawur (scub fowl) and bugutj-bugutj (banded fruit dove). The Dhuwa mokuy they come in from rangi side (saltwater).'

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