Churinga

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Churinga

Australia

Churinga votive board
Aboriginal

Carved Wood and pigments
19th century
Height: 37 ¼ in. – 94.5 cm

Ex private collection, France

Sold
Churinga (or Tjurunga) votive boards of the Central Desert in Australia are sacred objects symbolizing the spirits of the ancestors and marking the place of the clan in the world.
Each tribe, clan, family, are connected to animals, plants or inanimate objects. The myths and relationships between each human group are inscribed in the churinga. These ties are highlighted during aboriginal ceremonies, songs and peregrinations that are often described as "Songlines". The conventional tracks recall the legends and symbols that will help the holder to recall the founding myths.
Churingas were carved with great care and patience. These revered objects could only be seen by initiated men during ceremonial times. The rest of the year, churingas were preciously wrapped in tapa (bark) cloth or in animal skins and kept in sacred places.

This sculpture is redolent with sacredness and mystery.

"...the labyrinth of invisible pathways which meander all over Australia and are known to Europeans as 'Dreaming-tracks' or 'Songlines'; to the Aboriginals as the 'Footprints of the Ancestors' or the 'Way of the Law’. Aboriginal Creation myths tell of the legendary totemic being who wandered over the continent in the Dreamtime, singing out the name of everything that crossed their path - birds, animals, plants, rocks, waterholes - and so singing the world into existence.''

Bruce Chatwin, "The Songlines", 1987
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Large Churinga

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Large Churinga

Australia

Exceptional Churinga votive board
Aboriginal peoples
Western Australia

Carved wood and pigments
19th century
Height: 77 ½ in. – 197 cm

Provenance:
Ex collection Lindsay Black (1886-1959) & Colin Black (1903-1988)
Ex collection Black’s Museum, Mt. Gambier until its closure in 1988
Ex collection Wayne Heathcote
Ex private collection, Vienna, Austria

Large Churinga 197 cm / Galerie Flak Price on request
Churinga (or Tjurunga) votive boards of the Western Desert in Australia are sacred objects symbolizing the spirits of the ancestors and marking the place of the clan in the world.
Each tribe, clan, family, are connected to animals, plants or inanimate objects. The myths and relationships between each human group are inscribed in the churinga. These ties are highlighted during aboriginal ceremonies, songs and peregrinations that are often described as "Songlines". The conventional tracks recall the legends and symbols that will help the holder to recall the founding myths.
Churingas were carved with great care and patience. These revered objects could only be seen by initiated men during ceremonial times. The rest of the year, churingas were preciously wrapped in tapa (bark) cloth or in animal skins and kept in sacred places.

This sculpture is redolent with sacredness and mystery.

"...the labyrinth of invisible pathways which meander all over Australia and are known to Europeans as 'Dreaming-tracks' or 'Songlines'; to the Aboriginals as the 'Footprints of the Ancestors' or the 'Way of the Law’. Aboriginal Creation myths tell of the legendary totemic being who wandered over the continent in the Dreamtime, singing out the name of everything that crossed their path - birds, animals, plants, rocks, waterholes - and so singing the world into existence.''

Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, 1987

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Churinga

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Churinga votive board
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Carved Wood and pigments
Early 20th century or earlier
Height: 9 ½ in. (24.5 cm)

Ex private collection, France

Churinga 24.5 cm / Galerie Flak sold
Churinga (or Tjurunga) votive boards of the Central Desert in Australia are sacred objects symbolizing the spirits of the ancestors and marking the place of the clan in the world.
Each tribe, clan, family, are connected to animals, plants or inanimate objects. The myths and relationships between each human group are inscribed in the churinga. These ties are highlighted during aboriginal ceremonies, songs and peregrinations that are often described as "Songlines". The conventional tracks recall the legends and symbols that will help the holder to recall the founding myths.
Churingas were carved with great care and patience. These revered objects could only be seen by initiated men during ceremonial times. The rest of the year, churingas were preciously wrapped in tapa (bark) cloth or in animal skins and kept in sacred places.

This sculpture is redolent with sacredness and mystery.

"...the labyrinth of invisible pathways which meander all over Australia and are known to Europeans as 'Dreaming-tracks' or 'Songlines'; to the Aboriginals as the 'Footprints of the Ancestors' or the 'Way of the Law’. Aboriginal Creation myths tell of the legendary totemic being who wandered over the continent in the Dreamtime, singing out the name of everything that crossed their path - birds, animals, plants, rocks, waterholes - and so singing the world into existence.''

Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, 1987
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Gope

Papua New Guinea

Gope spirit board
Papuan Gulf

Carved wood, pigments
Early 20th century
Height: 50 ¼ in. (127 cm)

Ex collection Paul Wirz (1892-1955), Basel, acquired in the early 1930s
Photographed in situ circa 1930, published in 1934 and 1953
Ex collection Kevin Conru, Brussels
Ex Sotheby’s Paris, December 2019 lot 16
Ex private collection, Spain

Published:
Dresden Museum, « Beiträge zur Ethnographie des Papua-Golfes, Britisch-Neuguinea », in Abhandlungen und Berichte der Museen für Tierkunde und Völkerkunde zu Dresden Band XIX, Paul Wirz, 1934, plate XIX fig. 1 (photograph in situ)
Weltvagant im Urwald und auf der Savanne, Paul Wirz, Universum Verlag Zurich, 1953, cover & page 80

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As described in the reference book on the arts and cultures of the Gulf of Papua, Coaxing the Spirits to Dance (Hood Museum & the Metropolitan Museum of Art), wood sculpture in the region was primarily two-dimensional, consisting of board-like carvings, known as spirit boards (gope or kopé) and bioma figures with designs in low relief.
In the past, the primary focus of religious and artistic life in the region was on powerful spirits called imunu. Each imunu typically was associated with a specific location in the landscape, rivers, or sea, and was linked to the specific clan within whose territory it dwelt. Villages formerly had large communal men's houses divided into cubicles, each allotted to a particular clan or subclan. Every cubicle contained a clan shrine, which housed the gope spirit boards, figures, human and animal skulls, and other sacred objects associated with the clan's various imunu.
In July 1930, the Swiss anthropologist and collector Paul Wirz settled for several months in the Papuan Gulf, near the Era River. On one of his field photographs, the gope board presented here appears (opposite page, on the lower left hand side).

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Altar – Era River Photograph by Paul Wirz 1930
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

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Gope

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Gope

Papua New Guinea

Gope spirit board
Omaumere village, Urama Island
Papuan Gulf

Carved wood, natural pigments
Late 19th – early 20th century
Height: 40 ½ in. (103 cm)

Field-collected in February 1966 by Thomas Schultze-Westrum
Ex collection John A. & Marcia Friede

Published: Interiors, 2023
Gope ex Schultze-Westrum / Galerie Flak Price on request
As described in "Coaxing the Spirits to Dance" (Hood / Metropolitan Museum), in the past, the primary focus of religious and artistic life in the region was on powerful spirits (imunu). Each imunu typically was associated with a specific location in the landscape, rivers, or sea, and was linked to the specific clan within whose territory it dwelt. Papuan Gulf wood sculpture was primarily two-dimensional, consisting of board-like carvings, known as spirit boards (Gope or kopé), and figures with designs in low relief. Villages formerly had large communal men's houses divided into cubicles, each allotted to a particular clan or subclan. Every cubicle contained a clan shrine, which housed the Gope spirit boards, figures, human and animal skulls, and other sacred objects associated with the clan's various imunu.

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Attached field photograph by Thomas Schultze-Westrum: Omaumere Village, Urama Island, February 1966, courtesy M. Hamson

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