Sacred board "tjuringa"

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.