Lorrkon Story

This is a decorative Lorrkon pole made for homes and office spaces.

Traditionally, the Lorrkon is a hollow log coffin used by the people of Arnhem Land, Australia. It consists of a tree trunk hollowed out by termites and painted by a clan member of the deceased, with the bones placed inside. The Lorrkon ceremony is the final ceremony in a sequence of mortuary rituals celebrated by the people of Arnhem Land. The ceremony involves the placing the deceased’s bones into a hollow log which is decorated with painted clan designs and ceremonially placed into the ground where it remains until it slowly decays over many years.

The hollow log made from a termite hollowed Stringybark tree (Eucalyptus tetradonta) and is decorated with totemic emblems.