| *** | Aboriginal hair adornment, Broome Region, Western Australia. Carved and engraved hardwood. Hairpin is superbly carved with hypnotic La Grange style carving. Approx length 38.5 x 4.5 cm. Provenance: McCanns auction, Melbourne, Victoria. Private Collection,… | *** |  |
| *** | Early fine stone headed war club, New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Carved hardwood, stone and shells. Long cylindrical shaft inserted through a large rounded doughnut-form stone at the top with shells applied around the inner edge on top and bottom, dark… | *** |  |
| *** | Lil Lil club, Murray River Region Western District, Victoria. Carved hardwood. Approx length 76 x 17 cm. Provenance: Collected by Louis Kurtze Kurtzes Museum, Portland, Victoria. Private Collection, South Australia. | *** |  |
| *** | Early Tiwi throwing club, Tiwi group, Melville and Bathurst Islands, Northern Territory. Carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigment. With longitudinal fluted design with ochre decoration on bulbous head, old patina. Approx length 45 x 4.5 cm.… | *** |  |
| *** | Aboriginal hair adornment, Kimberley, Western Australia. Carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigment. Hairpin is superbly carved with hypnotic la grange style carving. Approx length 44 x 4 cm. Provenance: Ex Don Robinson collection A2, New South… | *** |  |
| *** | Early incised ceremonial boomerang, Central Australia. Carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigment. Approx length 56.5 x 8 cm. Provenance: Collected by Mr. Fred Cavenagh who was granted a pastoral lease to an area 100km Ne of Alice Springs in 1906,… | *** |  |
| *** | Early boomerang club, Coopers Creek Region, South Australia, carved and engraved hardwood (with custom stand) of bi-convex section, finely fluted design to both surfaces with traces of red ochre, old dark patina. Length 92 x 7 cm. Provenance: Sotheby's,… | *** |  |
| *** | Early small parrying shield, South Eastern Australia, carved hardwood (with custom stand) shield composed of hardwood. Wedge-shaped with tapering ends. Handle cut from solid, old dark patina. Length 47 x 11 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, South… | *** |  |
| *** | Engraved boomerang, Western New South Wales / Southern Queensland. Of bi-convex section with clipped ends, face engraved with sinuous designs, possibly representing the travels of a dreaming Ancector or the course of a River system. Carved and engraved… | *** |  |
| *** | Early incised ceremonial boomerang, Central Australia. Carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigment. Provenance: Private Collection, Queensland. Approx. length 74 x 8 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Incised fighting club, Northwest Australia. This is an unusual specimen with a finely carved ceremonial pattern. Carved and engraved hardwood. Provenance: Private Collection, New South Wales. Cf. Fig 163, Aboriginal Australia Agdc. Approx. length 69 x 3.5… | *** |  |
| *** | Painted shield, Central Australia, carved beanwood and natural pigments, painted beanwood shield from Central Australia has incised linear striations on both sides and was coated with a background of red ochre. The front of the shield is brightly painted… | *** |  |
| *** | Early woomera, Western Australia, carved and engraved hardwood and spinifex resin, of leaf like form, the front with finely adzed zig-zag and linear designs, the reverse with fine adze marking, wooden peg attached. Approx. length 70.5 x 7 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A fine New Ireland Malangan mask. Carved and engraved wood and natural pigments. Approx. length 47 x 47 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Early bulbous headed fighting club, Queensland. Carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigments. Decorated with finely fluting striations running lengthwise and old dark patina overall. Approx length 70 x 8 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, New South… | *** |  |
| *** | Old Maori canoe prow carved and pierced with blood red ochre decoration, 50 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | Pearlshell pendant, Kimberley Region, Western Australia. Carved and engraved pearl shell, in-filled with red ochre. These beautiful Kimberley pearl shell pendants are usually incised with intricate patterns on their convex surface. The patterns represent… | *** |  |
| *** | Early fine incised bullroarer, Kimberley, Western Australia. Carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigments. The bullroarer is a primitive instrument used at initiation and other ceremonies. It is an oblong section of wood, attached to a length of cord… | *** |  |
| *** | Early fighting boomerang, South East Queensland. Carved and engraved hardwood. Of crescent form, the ribbed surface replete with adzed striations, and dark glossy patina, length 69 x 6 cm. Provenance: Skinner, Marlborough, Discovery-3024T, 7 September… | *** |  |
| *** | Spear thrower (woomera), South East South Australia. Carved hardwood, bone and spinifex resin, length 47.5 x 4.5 cm. Provenance: Ex Don Robinson collection A8, New South Wales. Private collection, New South Wales | *** |  |
| *** | Rare early boomerang, Victoria. Carved hardwood. Of thin bi-convex section with ribbed surface and old dark patina, length 58 x 8 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney | *** |  |
| *** | Collection of three hunting spears, Warburton Ranges, Western Australia. Carved hardwood and kangaroo sinew. Group of three hunting spears from the Western Desert. They are composite spears with the blade and wooden barbs bound to each other with kangaroo… | *** |  |
| *** | Unusual rare early boomerang, Victoria. Carved and adzed hardwood. Of plano-convex section with one straight arm and one with a concave twist, old shinny patina. Approx length 54 x 6 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, United Kingdom. Private Collection,… | *** |  |
| *** | Painted ceremonial boomerang, Central Australia, carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigment (with custom stand) Typical Central Australian boomerang used in fighting or to provide musical accompaniment to singing by clapping a pair of them together.… | *** |  |
| *** | Coiled basket, Lake Alexandrina, South Australia. Woven plant fibre. The basket is made from fibre using a coiled basketry technique. It has an oval shape with a flat base and straight sides that are slightly warped. A handle extends from the weave on one… | *** |  |
| *** | Large ceremonial boomerang, Mornington Island, Queensland, carved hardwood and natural pigments (with custom stand) used in ritual dance, rather than hunting. The white tips are typical Mornington Island motifs. Length 85.5 x 7 cm. Provenance: Lawsons… | *** |  |
| *** | Rare steel hafted axe, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, steel, bent wood, spinifex resin and natural pigments (with custom stand) this hafted metal head axe is painted with natural pigments. The head held in place with resin and the wooden handle is bent… | *** |  |
| *** | Antique Australian Aboriginal hardwood nulla nulla, incised decoration to the hard tip, approx 71 cm long | *** |  |
| *** | Small parrying shield, New South Wales. Of bi-convex section and elongated triangular profile, solid cut handle, old dark patina overall. Carved and adzed wood. Provenance: Private Collection, United Kingdom. Private Collection, New South Wales. Approx.… | *** |  |
| *** | Picture of a Bali girl, approx 54 cm high. 45 cm wide | *** |  |
| *** | Paddle, Lake Sentani, West Papua. Carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigments. A long boat's oar, carved from one piece of hard, light-coloured wood. With a long, flat, pointed paddle shovel, decorated on both sides with highly abstract geometric… | *** |  |
| *** | Rare club, Rennell Island. Carved hardwood and natural fibre, length 83.5 x 16 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Queensland | *** |  |
| *** | Rare early spear thrower (woomera), north East Queensland, carved and engraved hardwood and spinifex resin (with custom stand) of elongated flattened and slender form, wooden pegs attached with resin and kangaroo sinew on both ends, old dark patina.… | *** |  |
| *** | Fine early shield, Central Australia, Northern Territory, carved beanwood and natural pigments (with custom stand) an oval shield made from a single piece of softwood (red bean tree) with rounded ends. The entire surface has longitudinal fluting of… | *** |  |
| *** | Lil lil club, Darling River Region, New South Wales. Often described as a 'Boomerang-club', this variety could be either thrown or hand held in battle. The fine overall tooling pattern is characteristic of that used on boomerangs and other artefacts from… | *** |  |
| *** | Large Abelam ancestor figure, natural earth pigment on carved wood, approx 235 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | Early incised ceremonial boomerang, Central Australia. Carved and engraved hardwood. Provenance: Collected 1960's. Private Collection, New South Wales. Approx. length 77.7 x 6 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Early sword club, Queensland, carved hardwood with natural pigments, of paddle-like form, handle of oval section, with traces of black pigment design, dark glossy patina overall. Approx. length 109 x 6.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Large ceremonial boomerang, Central Australia, carved and engraved hardwood, ceremonial boomerang, the front decorated with finely fluted design and circle motif, finely adzed on the reverse. Approx. length 90 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Rare early club, South East coastal New South Wales. Carved hardwood. Approx length 52 x 11.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, New South Wales. | *** |  |
| *** | Fine early hooked boomerangs, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory. Carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigment. Of plano-convex section, decorated with fine fluted designs on the front and adze markings on the reverse, old pigmented patina. Approx… | *** |  |
| *** | Throwing club, Condah Lakes, Victoria, carved and engraved hardwood (with custom stand) length 65 x 5 cm. Provenance: ray Dalton, Bendigo, Victoria. Private collection, South Australia | *** |  |
| *** | Connie Hart coiled basket, Condah Lakes, Victoria, woven plant fibre (no custom stand) the basket is made from fibre using a coiled basketry technique. It has an oval shape with a flat base and straight sides that are slightly warped. A handle extends… | *** |  |
| *** | Early hooked boomerangs, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigment (with custom stand) of plano-convex section, decorated with fine fluted designs on both surfaces and adze markings on the reverse, pigmented… | *** |  |
| *** | Early shield, Central Australia, Northern Territory, carved beanwood and natural pigments (with custom stand) an oval shield made from a single piece of softwood (red bean tree) with rounded ends. The entire surface has longitudinal fluting of parallel… | *** |  |
| *** | Rare early boomerang, Victoria, carved hardwood (no custom stand) of thin bi-convex section with ribbed surface and old dark patina. Length 64 x 7 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, United Kingdom. Private collection, Queensland | *** |  |
| *** | Early bulbous club, South East Australia. Of circular section swelling out to form a conical termination, very old patina. Carved and engraved hardwood. Provenance: G.Husband Collection. Private Collection, New South Wales. Approx. length 56 x 6 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Early bulbous head club, South East Australia. The straight shaft of circular section that terminates in a finely adzed thick bi-conial distal end, old patina. Carved and engraved hardwood.Provenance: Private Collection, United Kingdom. G.Husband… | *** |  |
| *** | Kimberley spear point, Moola Bulla station, Kimberley Region, Western Australia. Pressure-flaked glass. Approx length 13 x 3 cm. Provenance: Ex collection Lindsay black (1886-1959) Ex collection Black's Museum, Mt. Gambier, South Australia label reading… | *** |  |
| *** | Large club, Condah Lakes, Victoria, carved and engraved hardwood (with custom stand) length 96.5 x 5 cm. Provenance: Collected by Louis Kurtze Kurtzes Museum, Portland, Victoria. Private collection, South Australia | *** |  |
| *** | Early incised throwing club, Victoria, carved and engraved hardwood (with custom stand) length 59 x 3.5 cm Provenance: Lyle Gamertsfelder, Alice Springs, Northern Territory. Private collection, South Australia | *** |  |
| *** | Unusual rare early boomerang, Victoria. Carved and adzed hardwood. Of bi-convex section with one straight arm and one with a concave twist, old patina. Approx length 58 x 6 cm. Provenance: bill Evans, Caspian gallery, Sydney. Private Collection, South… | *** |  |
| *** | Early hooked boomerangs, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigment (with custom stand) of plano-convex section, decorated with fine fluted designs on the front and adze markings on the reverse, pigmented patina.… | *** |  |
| *** | Early engraved boomerang, Western New South Wales / Southern Queensland. Carved and engraved hardwood. Of convex section with clipped ends, the front incised with linear linked ovoid designs, the reverse with adzed surface, old patina overall. Approx… | *** |  |
| *** | Pair of early boomerangs, Nullarbor plain, Southern Australia, carved hardwood (no custom stands) lengths 50.5 cm, 47.5 cm. Provenance: Collected 1913 Nullarbor plain by Maryanne Fowle and Oscar Jagger. Private collection, Queensland | *** |  |
| *** | Early sword club, Port Essington, Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory. Carved hardwood with natural pigments. Of paddle-like form, handle of oval section, with traces of black pigment design, dark glossy patina overall. Approx length 109 x 6.5 cm.… | *** |  |
| *** | Rare early stone Hafted axe, Gippsland, Victoria. Carved stone, bent wood and spinifex resin. This hafted stone axe head held in place with resin and the wooden handle is bent around the head and secured at the head with an interlaced band with vegetable… | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of ten painted bailer shells, Bartalumba bay, Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory, natural earth pigments on shell (no custom stands) lengths 6 cm to 13 cm. Provenance: attributed to Dick Nangabarra. Private collection, Queensland | *** |  |
| *** | Early bulbous head club, South East Australia. The straight shaft of circular section that terminates in a finely adzed thick bi-conial distal end, old patina. Carved and engraved hardwood. Provenance: Private Collection, New South Wales. Approx. length… | *** |  |
| *** | Fighting club, Queensland. Decorated with finely fluting striations running lengthwise and old dark patina overall. Carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigments. Provenance: Private Collection, United Kingdom. Private Collection, New South Wales.… | *** |  |
| *** | Important large Huon Gulf face bowl, Tami Islands. Carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigment. Black is faded probably because they used battery black instead of traditional methods, length 78 x 36.5 cm. Provenance: made by nomue (age late middle)… | *** |  |
| *** | Early returning boomerang, Lake Tyers, Victoria. Carved and engraved wood. Approx length 51.5 x 4.5 cm. Provenance: Roger Dundas, Portland, Victoria. Private Collection, South Australia. | *** |  |
| *** | Cape York Peninsula Bi-Valve spear thrower (woomera), Northern Queensland, carved hardwood, shell, abrus seeds and spinifex resin (with custom stand) the body of leaf-like form with right angle peg and shell handle attached with natural resins decorated… | *** |  |
| *** | Massim whalebone spatula with shell decoration, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. Such whalebone spatulas as this are very rare and would serve more as a wealth and prestige object than an actual functioning lime spatula. Carved whalebone, shell money… | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of six elaborately decorated barbed spears, Bouganville Island, Solomon Islands. Wood, bone, natural fibre and natural pigments. The whole of the long shaft wrapped with woven red, yellow and black fibre with a carved pigmented design above a… | *** |  |
| *** | Early bulbous head club, South East Australia. Carved and engraved hardwood. The straight shaft of circular section that terminates in a finely adzed thick bi-conial distal end, old patina. Approx length 60 x 8 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, United… | *** |  |
| *** | Fine incised message board, Central Australia. Carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigments, length 31 x 9 cm. Provenance: Ex Don Robinson collection A25, New South Wales. Private collection, New South Wales | *** |  |
| *** | Ldani Je stone, Irian Jaya. Carved stone and attached with plant fibers. Je stone is used as an exchange gift at weddings and funeral rites by the Dani people in the highlands of Irian Jaya. The wrapping is of orchid fiber with plant fiber decoration,… | *** |  |
| *** | Early fighting boomerang, South East Queensland, carved hardwood (with custom stand) of crescent form, the ribbed surface replete with adzed striations, and dark glossy patina. Length 65 x 6 cm. Provenance: bill Evans, Caspian gallery, Sydney. Private… | *** |  |
| *** | Cross boomerang, Queensland. Carved and engraved wood and European paint. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney. Approx. length 41 x 34 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Two pairs of fine Santa Cruz Islands dancer ornaments, Solomon Islands. These beautifully made ornaments are made from cut leaves and then painted with traditional designs, they then have soft stringy fibre at the back of the decorated part. Provenance:… | *** |  |
| *** | Kimberley spear point, Kimberley Region, Western Australia. Pressure-flaked glass. Approx length 14.5 x 4 cm. Provenance: Collected Gilby the Policeman Hatches creek 1946-1947. Jeff Fischer, Adelaide. Private Collection, South Australia. | *** |  |
| *** | Small Rainforest sword club, Northeast Queensland. Carved and engraved hardwood. Elongated ovoid form, small cut handle of oval section, old shiny patina. Approx length 71.5 x 10 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Queensland. | *** |  |
| *** | Lily Kurrultya, dilly bag, Jarruluk, Northern Territory. Woven plant fibre and natural pigment. A dilly bag (burlupurr in Burarra or kunmadj in Kunwinjku) is a large woven collecting basket. These large baskets or bags are often made from pandanus… | *** |  |
| *** | Large throwing club, Lake Tyers area, Victoria carved and engraved hardwood. Approx length 70 x 4 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, South Australia. | *** |  |
| *** | Fine painted club, Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory, carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigment (with custom stand) with longitudinal fluted design with ochre decoration in traditional banded designs, old patina. Length 66 x 4 cm. Provenance: bill… | *** |  |
| *** | Large hafted stone knife, Central Australia, Northern Territory, stone, spinifex resin and natural pigments (with custom stand) knife with blade made from fLaked quartzite. Handle made from spinifex resin and handle has been coated in red ochre. Length 24… | *** |  |
| *** | Stone hafted axe, Northern Territory, carved stone, bent wood, spinifex resin and natural pigments (with custom stand) a hafted hatchet made with an edge ground stone axe head. It is secured with resin to a handle made from a single piece of wood bent… | *** |  |
| *** | Fine early large Western Desert boomerang, Western Australia. Of plano-convex section, the surfaces with finely adzed markings and fine old patina. Carved and adzed hardwood. Provenance: Private Collection, New South Wales. Approx. length 76.5 x 6.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Large Huon Gulf Taro mortar, Tami Islands. Carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigments. Appox L47.6 x 25 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, New South Wales | *** |  |
| *** | Early Pearlshell pendant, Kimberley Region, Western Australia. Carved and engraved pearl shell, in-filled with red ochre. Of leaf-like form, pierced at top with incised traditional motifs. Approx length 19 x 3.5 cm. Provenance: Ex Don Robinson collection… | *** |  |
| *** | Club, Condah Lakes, Victoria, carved and engraved hardwood (with custom stand) length 69 x 6 cm. Provenance: Collected by Louis Kurtze Kurtzes Museum, Portland, Victoria. Private collection, South Australia | *** |  |
| *** | Club, Condah Lakes, Victoria, carved and engraved hardwood (with custom stand) length 80.5 x 6.5 cm. Provenance: Collected by Louis Kurtze Kurtzes Museum, Portland, Victoria. Private collection, South Australia | *** |  |
| *** | Fighting club, Lake Tyers area, Victoria. Carved and engraved hardwood. Approx length 73 x 3.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, South Australia. | *** |  |
| *** | Early throwing club, Lake Tyers area, Victoria. Carved and engraved hardwood. The curving shaft of circular section terminating in bulbous head at the distal ends. With conical section at the proximal end encircled with engraved ridges and pecked markings… | *** |  |
| *** | Fine early fighting boomerang, Rockhampton Region, Queensland. Carved and engraved hardwood. Approx length 62.5 x 5.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Queensland. | *** |  |
| *** | Rare early boomerang, Victoria. Carved hardwood. Of thin bi-convex section with ribbed surface and old dark patina. Approx length 75 x 8 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, United Kingdom. Private Collection, Queensland. | *** |  |
| *** | Boomerang club, Coopers Creek Region, South Australia, carved hardwood (with custom stand) length 85.5 x 6 cm. Provenance: Scammell Auctions, Adelaide, South Australia. Private collection, South Australia | *** |  |
| *** | Tiwi pole, Tiwi group, Melville and Bathurst Islands, Northern Territory, carved hardwood, feathers with natural earth pigment (no custom stand) length 71 x 11 cm. Provenance: Executed on Bathurst or Melville Islands, Northern Territory Tiwi design… | *** |  |
| *** | Pair of rare Aboriginal canoe paddles, carved and adzed hardwood, approx. lengths 163 cm, 181 cm. Provenance: Collection number 0235 | *** |  |
| *** | Old South East Asian Dyak Mandau,well carved handle approx 55 cm long | *** |  |
| *** | Saw fish rostrum with eye section on metal stand, West Papua, 93 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | Arthur Johann Jo Konig (German-1951?) portrait of a Bali woman, signed and dated Bali 1951, 55 x 47 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Elongated bulbous throwing club, Lake Tyers, Victoria. Carved and engraved hardwood. Approx length 42 x 4.5 cm. Provenance: ray Dalton, Bendigo, Victoria. Private Collection, South Australia. | *** |  |
| *** | Early returning boomerang, New South Wales. Carved and adzed hardwood. Of thin bi-convex section shaped like an arc, old black patina overall. Approx length 56.5 x 6 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, United Kingdom. Private Collection, Queensland. | *** |  |
| *** | Galja (elephant) temple mask, Bali, Indonesia. Carved and engraved pule wood and gold paint, length 42 x 28 cm. Provenance: Ex Todd Barlin collection, Sydney. Private collection, New South Wales | *** |  |
