Australia
Set of two painted aboriginal barks. 
H. 62 cm / H. 103 cm
Description

Australia Set of two painted aboriginal barks. H. 62 cm / H. 103 cm

643 

Australia Set of two painted aboriginal barks. H. 62 cm / H. 103 cm

Auction is over for this lot. See the results

You may also like

Butcher Joe Nangan (1900 - 1989) Mother-of-pearl riji pendant, engraved on one side with ochre-colored geometric motifs, braided human hair on the other side. Australia, Broome region (Kimberley) H. 17 cm Riji pendants are aboriginal sex covers from the pearling town of Broome in northern Australia. They are reserved for men and are given to them as part of a ceremony marking their passage into adulthood. The engravings on them often depict sacred Aboriginal motifs. Butcher Joe Nangan is one of the few Aboriginal artists currently known. His artistic output consists of pencil drawings, as well as shells and nuts, which he incises with the traditional motifs of his people. He is said to have made this riji for its current owner, Jean-Pierre Cardinaux, then an anthropologist in the Broome region (Kimberley, Australia). Provenance: Jean-Pierre Cardinaux's personal collection. Jean-Pierre Cardinaux is a Belgian-Swiss artist currently based in Burgundy, formerly an anthropologist who studied in Perth at the University of Western Australia. From 1964 to 1974, he worked for the Department of Native Welfare, a government organization whose mission was to protect and integrate aboriginal populations into society (schooling for children, health, professional integration, etc.). He held the position of "welfare officer" and obtained his first post in the village of Moora, north of Perth, before being sent to Broome in the Kimberley region, in the north of the state, an area encompassing the La Grange and Beagle-bay reserves, where a large number of Aborigines still lived in the "traditional" way. In addition to his work as a welfare officer, he carries out anthropological recording, in which he collaborates with Professor Ronald Berndt, a renowned anthropologist and founder of the anthropology department at the University of Western Australia.