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Old Australian Aboriginal Mokoy Carving. Old Australian Aboriginal Mokoy Carving, a. Beautiful collection piece, Mokoy Figures. Are produced in central and eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia, Mokoy figures represent trickster spirits. They incorporate many different types of dead spirits, from being part of a human deceased spirit to aspects of wangar ancestral being. Carved from softwood with earth pigments. This is an excellent addition to any Australian Aboriginal art collection. Please see detail photos which form part of the description. Note; Old stable age crack at back of figure, dose not distract but must be mentioned, only adds to the patina, please review all photos.. Miranda in Sydney South. We cannot fix a problem we do not know about. We strive for straight A+ and all 5s in our feedback and will bend over backwards to achieve this. I have many regular and happy customers and hope that you will also become one of them. Many of the items for sale at Jims International Bazaar were collected by Jim on his around the world adventures as an author, photojournalist and photographer. They include Turkish rugs, copper and brass, and artifacts from. These things are from his private collection, none were bought for the purpose of reselling but rather to decorate his home. Many new items will be listed as they are unpacked from storage along. With a wonderful collection of photographic prints including many wildlife photos and prints of tigers photographed in. Is an internationally renowned photojournalist and adventurer, with two major photographic books (New Guinea & Cannibal), plus covers and major spreads in a whole host of internationally prestigious magazines from Life International to The Geographic and Argosy. He’s been shipwrecked in the Pacific, wrestled camels in. And scoured the New Guinea Highlands in search of missing American heir and adventurer Michael Rockefeller. He has also lived and worked in the jungles of. For over two years while collecting material for his books and records. A blue-water yachtsman, he sailed his own 60ft yacht, the “Moana Vahine”, from Hong Kong to Southern Turkey, down the South China Sea, across the Indian Ocean, and up the full length of the Red Sea, via Singapore, Panang, Sri lanki, The Maldive Islands, and French Djibouti. An avid diver and spear fisherman, he mounted a series of diving expeditions in The. In addition to several years in. He has organized and/or participated in photographic expeditions in. And some of the more remote islands of the south pacific. “On board the forty-foot ketch, the “Marquesa, we were the first yacht to visit the remote. In the Marquesas in almost two years. The item “Old Australian Aboriginal Mokoy Carving beautiful collection piece” is in sale since Wednesday, October 30, 2019. This item is in the category “Antiques\Ethnographic\Other Ethnographic”. The seller is “jimapix” and is located in Sydney, NSW. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Mokoy Carving: 1960
- Material: Wood
- Original/Reproduction: Original
- Provenance: central and eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Te
- Product Type: Carvings
- Originating Region: Australia
- Era: Early 1960’s