Talks
Friday February 15, 2019 12 – 1 pm
The Inside World: Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Memorial Poles – A Panel Discussion
The Inside World: Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Memorial Poles from the Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection presents 94 works from 49 contemporary Aboriginal artists from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Traditionally, these poles—named lorrkon in the west and larrakitj in the east—marked the final point in Aboriginal mortuary rites. They signified the