This didgeridoo was made and obtained in 1988 during the 'handover of the rock' ceremony to the traditional owners. My Mother & I are indigenous & were camping with the Mutijulu people who are the traditional owners, located 1km from the base of the rock for the 2nd time. Being female I have never played it & of course it's painted in oches. It's 1400mm long & weighs 3kgs in good vintage condition with minimal marks & minimal natural cracks. Beeswax has been applied to the mouth piece for comfort. I remember seeing didgeridoo's being soaked in a pool, water content in the wood increases the resonating sound. If the earth had a voice it would be the sound of this didgeridoo.The Mutijulu people are very private people, ultimately very shy. They are proud & fiercely protective, signs warning tourists away. The significance of the rock was a constant theme. Few people awake to the sun rising from behind the rock, it's brilliant red tone was blinding, I asked if it was on fire as a child. This is a high cultural integrity instrument. 100% made and decorated, from start to finish, by a traditional custodian of the instrument. Less than 0.01% of didgeridoo's sold are of this standard. A traditional custodian is an Indigenous Australian who is entitled, by Aboriginal tradition, to make and use the didgeridoo and whose ancestors, by Aboriginal tradition, have made and used the didgeridoo. Made from termite-hollowed hard wood.When the Ancestral Beings created the land, animals, plants and all other life forms, they also laid down a set of rules and regulations so that human beings could live within a system of law. The didgeridoo and its origins are part of this law… in this sense, the didgeridoo and its associated mythologies are the foundation blocks for life itself because the didgeridoo and its inner manifestations have their roots in Creation Stories much like the Book of Genesis in the Bible. Djalu is fond of saying that a didgeridoo made by a traditional owner or custodian has spirit. The spirit is in the instrument itself, a genealogy dating back to the first didgeridoo. An instrument made by a non-Indigenous person, on the other hand, has no spirit but is merely a musical instrument like a trumpet or a trombone. The same applies to didgeridoos made by Aboriginal people who do not have the instrument as part of their cultural heritage.