The title of this print evokes a coconut, full of milk and tasty flesh.
The branches form spikes from which the nuts grow.
Before the fruit began to form, the Torres Strait islanders had a custom of climbing coconut palms to lay turtle eggs, so that the best possible coconuts could develop.
This custom is no longer practised today, but the artist recalls that in the early 1980s he helped his father carry out this ritual on the family coconut plantation.
The print shows turtle eggs placed on the ends of branches before the nuts have formed.
Dennis NONA
Margul Urab -Turtle Eggs , 2007
Art : Aboriginal
Origine : Ile de Badu
Dimensions : 84 x 63 cm
Medium : Etching
Price : VENDUE / SOLD
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N° : 2248
