Timothy Cook, Kulama amintiya pakitiringa

Timothy Cook Australia, Tiwi, b. 1958

Kulama amintiya pakitiringa

natural ochres on linen

120 x 90 cm

840999

Kulama and rain. 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...

Kulama and rain. 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 certain wild yam species. Elders of both seces sing and dance for three days welcoming the boys into adulthood. The boy is then renamed with his true man's name.