Old Maningrida Mago, 1960s period

This is a wonderful 1960s mago from the stony escarpment country south-west of Maningrida. The artwork, comprising of rarrk patterning and infil dotting is reminiscent of Ronnie Djanbadi from Benamanarkagunora outstation, whose bark paintings from the 1960s-70s period have found their way into key private and public Aboriginal art collections in Australia and overseas.

This is a bloodwood mago as evidenced in the wavy grain pattern of the timber. The grain has opened up in places owing to age-related shrinkage, but these do not seem to leak air nor to lessen the instruments playability.

Darryl Digarrnga gives this mago a blast, the first Bininy to breathe life into this stick for 40 years or so. It still responds with generous warm acoustics... nice!

This is a museum-quality instrument that combines the ethnographic actuality of didgeridoo production in the 1960s with a genuine mago voice of 40 years ago.

It is offered for sale in the iDIDJ Store for those who might be interested:

http://www.ididj.com.au/store/fine_didjeridus.html

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[Didgeriroo]

its awesome to see old mago still floating around