LEEWUNGA
'Creatures of the Morning Star Ceremony,' c.1958.
Dorothy Bennett collection (possibly no. 27b)
Natural Earth Pigments on Eucalyptus Bark
108x34cm

PROVENANCE:
Dorothy Bennett, 1958; Collection Mr H & Mrs P Wallace, Sydney.

OTHER NOTES:
Documentation verso, 'When an aboriginal man of the Dua moiety dies, a morning star ceremony is held in his honour. A tall pole is bound with bush string interwoven with red and yellow parrakeet feathers and this pole is firmly implanted in the ground. Attached to it are long feathered streamers made from bush string, each of which is held by dancers as they dance around the pole.'

Estimate $800-1,500