Atuwati amintiya ratuwati - Island to island
Recent works from Milikapiti, Melville Island, Tiwi Islands
2 AM 4411/06
Timothy Cook Kulama 2006
Natural Ochres on Linen/Canvas 900 x 800mm SOLD
The Kulama ceremony is performed in the late wet season (March-April) when a ring appears around the moon.
Kulama is a traditional initiation for young men which coincides with the harvest of a certin 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.
  
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