Definition of Pukumani. Meaning of Pukumani. Synonyms of Pukumani

- mythology, changed into birds. Carved birds are sometimes at the top of pukumani poles, which are placed at burial sites. The carving of human sculptures...
- after giving birth to the first of the Rirratjingu clan. A Pukamani, or Pukumani, is a burial ceremony of the Tiwi Islands, which lasts for several days...
- typically feature body painting; the Yolngu and Tiwi people create carved pukumani burial poles from ironwood trunks, while elaborately carved burial trees...
- the ilma. Aboriginal people from the Tiwi Islands traditionally carved pukumani grave posts, and since the 1960s have been carving and painting iron wood...
- Sydney, formerly Australia’s first Government House) and across Australia. Pukumani or tutini (funerary) poles contrast Sydney’s urban landscape and memorialise...
- Purrukuparli about how death first came to the Tiwi and the origins of the first pukumani (mourning) ceremony. Other paintings are on bark Jilamara, Pamijini, Pamijini...
- Kurlarma initiation ceremony which celebrates health and regeneration and the Pukumani ceremony which is a ceremony ****ociated with death and mourning. The Kurlama...
- created in aluminium and finished with black polymer paint. Inspired by the pukumani burial poles of the Tiwi Islands, Funaki said of this work: "I like to...
- Year Artist Title Origin Notes 1986 Bede Tungatalum Pukumani Poles Northern Territory...