Sacred board "tjuringa" ("churinga", "tjurunga"), 19th / 20th century · Australia · ID: 3048013

Name: Sacred board "tjuringa" ("churinga", "tjurunga"), 19th / 20th century
SKU: 3048013
Availability: Discontinued

not available anymore

Provenance

Serge Schoffel, Brussels, Belgium

Size

H: 74,5 cm

B: 12 cm

H: 29.3 inch

B: 4.7 inch

Description

wood, pigments, base

“Tjuringas” were displayed at initiations by elders to explain traditions and legends to novices.

The linear incisions might refer to any number of beings, myths, fabulous beings of the Dreamtime, 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” (“churinga”, “tjurunga”), 19th / 20th century with the object ID 3048013 was last part of the auction 96th Auction at April 24, 2021 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 58.

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