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Tribal — Bonhams & Goodman

$216,000
The Property of Messrs Eric & Klaus Ganzert of Adelaide.…
$96,000
The Burke and Wills King Medal in the form of a brass breast pla…
$26,400
Aboriginal Breast Plate or Gorget in brass inscription reads 'JI…
$10,200
An Aboriginal Breast Plate or Gorget in brass, inscription reads…








Auction House: Bonhams & Goodman
Number of lots recorded: 53
Lots with images: 52
Prices available: 53
Category: Tribal




Lot Description Price Image
*** The Property of Messrs Eric & Klaus Ganzert of Adelaide. The Burke & Wills/King Medal in the form of a brass breast plate presented to members of the Yandruwandha People of Copper Creek, 1861 for Courage and Humanitarianism, the brass breast plate of crescent form, inscribed, 'Presented to (blank) by the Exploration Committee of Victoria for the Humanity shewn to the Explorers Burke, Wills and King. 1861.… ***
*** The Burke and Wills King Medal in the form of a brass breast plate ***
*** Aboriginal Breast Plate or Gorget in brass inscription reads 'JIMMY/KING of WAVE HILL', crescent-shaped, flat in vertical plane, with a chain attached at each apex, 10 cm wide, 32.5 cm long. Provenance: Presented to Ralph Hayes, former manager of Wave Hill Station, NT, in the late 1960s, by the then manager, Tom Fisher. Thence by descent. Wave Hill, one of a string of Northern Territory cattle stations owned by Lord Vestey, was the site of the 1966 Wave Hill walk-off. ***
*** An Aboriginal Breast Plate or Gorget in brass, inscription reads 'Major General Latouche/Tambo Barcoo/Queensland', with inscription surrounded by a scrolled design, crescent-shaped, flat in vertical plane, with a chain attached at each apex, left apex engraved with an emu and the right apex engraved with a kangaroo, both of which face outwards, 9 cm wide, 21 cm long Provenance: Collected by Lillius Shone from Tasmania, whose sister, Susie Jillet, lived on a large property near Blackall in Queensland, which … ***
*** An Aboriginal Breast Plate or Gorget in copper, inscription reads 'Alick/King of Montecallara & Moorathulla', also inscribed J S Paterson upper right, crescent-shaped plate, convex in vertical plane, with a figure of eight chain attached at each apex, 6 cm wide, 17.5 cm long Provenance: Collected by one of the early owners of Monkira station on the Diamantina River in Queensland. ***
*** An unusual African carved entrance door, decorated with tribesmen, animals and geometric patterns, 195 cm high, 98 cm wide ***
*** Six Australian Aboriginal objects including club, Coolamon, shield, boomerang, hook boomerang and spear ***
*** Carved stone club. Provenance: Captain Frank Moore collection ***
*** Four Australian Aboriginal boomerangs a shield and coolamon ***
*** Two items comprising Persian carved ivory panelled box together with an African carved ivory figure ornament of a kneeling woman (Af) ***
*** A Walrus ivory letter opener, possibly Inuit, the handle in the form of a fish, 25 cm long, ***
*** A Papua New Guinean carved wooden totem figure of a man wearing mask polychrome decorated 110 cm high ***
*** A Papua New Guinean totemic figure male wearing demonic mask grass decoration to nose peg necklace and wrists and ankles 104 cm high ***
*** Australian Aboriginal (Northern Territory) natural ochre pigments on stringy bark , Barramundi, circa 1960, 54 cm long ***
*** A collection of South Pacific artifacts (9) ***
*** Two painted spears ***

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