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WORKS BY LEADING ABORIGINAL, TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS AND WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS

Dennis NONA_Dokeran_Torres Strait
N°: 2291

Artist: Dennis NONA

Title: Dokeran

Art : Aboriginal

Community: Ile de Badu

Dimensions: L: 80 x H: 120 cm

Date: 2008

Medium: Etching
Price range: Non disponible à la vente / Not available


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ed./45Dokeran is one of the ancient legends belonging to the people of Badu Island like Dennis Nona. It is the story of a man who catches a turtle and travels around the shores of the island, finally manifesting himself as a rocky outcrop that can be seen on the Island today.It is Dokeran’s indecisiveness about where he is to butcher the turtle that takes him to many beaches and places that are known to today’s inhabitants of Badu.Dokeran lived on the south side of Badu at a place called Yaza. Yaza is the place where another legendary figure, Bia, created one of the Island’s sacred sites. Dokeran caught a turtle using a Gapu or suckerfish which was one of the traditional ways of hunting turtle and dugong. The Gapu is depicted on the back of the turtle at the bottom of the print. Dokeran carried the turtle along to Delalbibi and several other beaches in the tribal area of Argan. He then walked to Womar then on to Gaubut, Dugorr , Kotaid, Kotinab and Sesseraen Gagait, the place of another traditional story which was the subject of the artist’s first large scale linocut.At each place Dokeran visited he contemplated butchering the turtle but always changed his mind. He finally butchered the turtle at Mayan Kula before returning to Yaza. At Yasar, Dokeran was transformed into two large rocks that can be seen on the hillside at the place called Dokeran Kakurr.Dokeran is seen in the print carrying the turtle on his head and looking
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Musée du Quai Branly, Musée des Confluences à Lyon, Musée d'Art Contemporain les Abattoirs à Toulouse, Musée des Arts d’Afrique et d’Asie de Vichy, Musée de la Musique, Museum d'histoire naturelle de Lille, Musée de Rochefort, Fondation Electricité de France, Fondation Colas, Banque Dexia ...

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