aboriginal art memorial
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The Aboriginal Memorial
The aboriginal memorial acts as a commemoration to aborigines who have lost their lives defending their land in the last 200 hundred years from 1788-1988, which has an installation of 200 hollow coffins each representing one year. These hollow logs were from central Arnhem land which is situated in the top end of the northern territory and it's a home to aborigines who speaks many languages relating to any clan. The artists who helped make this possible decided to place it in public so that this could be preserved for the future generations and this memorial will always be a significant thing to the whole of Australians but especially to the Aborigines. This memorial is a demonstration for resilience and vitality of the aboriginal culture, and to invite the public to share in the celebration.
The memorial also represents a forest of souls, a war cemetery and the final rites for all aborigines who have never had a proper burial. This project involved up to 43 artists, both male and female, from Ramingining and other areas located in Central Arnhem Land.
The through the memorial represents the course of the Glyde river which flows through the Arafura swamp to the sea. The hollow coffins are situated to which ever artist/s living along the river and even their local clans.
The aboriginal installation is inspired from the hollow log or bone coffin ceremony done in central Arnhem land. These ceremonies are known as the Dupran ceremony and is also known according to the other clan languages as Lorrkon, Djalumbu, Badurru, Mudukundja, Mululu and Larajeje...