Timothy Cook, Kulama

TURNUWA AMINTIYA KIRIJIPUNI : BLACK & WHITE: An exhibition from Snake Bay

5 - 22 April 2019

Timothy Cook Australia, Tiwi, b. 1958

Kulama

natural ochres on linen

120 x 90 cm

840925

Kulama 2018 The Kulama Ceremony is performed in the late wet season (March - April) when a ring appears around the moon. Kulama is a traditionl initiation for young men...

Kulama
2018
The Kulama Ceremony is performed in the late wet season (March - April) when a ring appears around the moon. Kulama is a traditionl initiation for young men which coincides with the harvest of a certain wild yam species. Elders of both sexes sing and dance for three days welcoming the boys into adulthood. The boy is then renamed with his true man's name.