Sacred board "tjuringa" ·  Australia · ID: 3041429

Description

wood, brown patina, red pigment, incised symbols and signs on front- and reverse side, min. dam., minor missing parts, base;
the linear incisions might refer to any number of beings, myths, parts of the heavens or the landscape, plants, and animals and their tracks. Because any of these motifs can be used to represent many different things, the meaning of a single “tjuringa” is impossible to interpret without information from its owner.

The object Sacred board “tjuringa” with the object ID 3041429 was last part of the auction 84th Tribal Art Auction at November 5, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 39.

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