Lot 4047

Maningrida Arts & Culture, Northern Territory (label verso) (accompanied by a copy the certificate of authenticity)
Private collection, Melbourne

"This work by Kay Lindjuwanga concerns a major patrimoiety ceremony of a secret and sacred nature called Mardayin. Much of the meaning of the iconography in the painting is not in the domain of public knowledge and so it cannot be explained in detail here.

The painting also refers to an important site, Dilebang, where the ancestor Buluwana and her family died. Today an arrangement of rocks standing in the ground remains as Buluwana's present-day form at Dilebang. Only her head protrudes as a prismic standing stone, the rest of her body is under the ground. Other human remains lying on rock ledges are said to be the remains of other early ancestors. The white circles are the watersprings from Dilebang."

As stated on a copy of the Maningrida Arts & Culture certificate of authenticity.

© Kay Lindjuwanga/Copyright Agency, 2025