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Auction House:
Bonhams
Number of lots recorded:22
Lots with images:22
Prices available:22
Category:
Aboriginal - Artefacts
LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** A mixed group of Aboriginal boomerangs, including several large southwest Queensland fighting boomerangs ***
*** A mixed group of Aboriginal boomerangs(50) ***
*** A mixed group of Aboriginal boomerangs(50) ***
*** An Tiwi Pukamani pole, tutini, Northern Territory painted in natural earth pigments with abstract designs, two diverging elements issuing from the top. Height 170 cm ***
*** A mixed group of Aboriginal boomerangs(50) ***
*** A mixed group of Aboriginal boomerangs(50) ***
*** A mixed group of Aboriginal boomerangs(50) ***
*** A mixed group of Aboriginal boomerangs(50) ***
*** A rainforest Aboriginal sword club, Queensland of slightly bowed, flat spatulate form, with short handle with remains of gum. Length 152 cm ***
*** A mixed group of Aboriginal boomerangs(50) ***
*** A mixed group of Aboriginal boomerangs(50) ***
*** A mixed group of Aboriginal clubs and tools(25) ***
*** Two early Aboriginal hardwood coolamons, both broadly incised with parallel grooves all over, the larger with native spinifex gum repair. Lengths 71 cm and 40 cm ***
*** A mixed group of Aboriginal hooked boomerangs, Central Australia ***
*** Four Aboriginal shields, comprising a Kimberley leaf-shaped shield with painted front, and three Central Australian mulga shields, 74 cm, 57 cm, 64 cm and. Length 84 cm ***
*** An Aboriginal copper breast plate, inscribed 'Jack Kibbeen King of Wollongbar' of crescent-shape, engraved with an Aboriginal warrior and a kangaroo, mounted in a presentation frame, 16 cm wide), 6.5 wide, 34 x 33 cm, the frame. Note: Jack Kabbeen was a… ***
*** A Western Australia Aboriginal shield, probably Le Grange Bay Region the reverse incised with a square meandering pattern of diagonal grooves, the obverse lightly adzed and with a few vertical grooves. Length 63 cm ***
*** An Aboriginal hardwood coolamon, of deep long oval from, incised all over with narrow parallel grooves, painted in red ochre. Length 61 cm ***
*** A small rainforest Aboriginal cross-boomerang, Cairns region, Queensland the two elements centrally pierced and bound together with cane, and a pair of large non-returning boomerangs largest 89 cm across ***
*** Three Aboriginal hardwood coolamons variously incised and painted, 81 cm, 63 cm and 61 cm long ***
*** Two Aboriginal didgeridoos, on decorated in the Arnhemland style, 135 cm and 150 cm long ***
*** Two Aboriginal morning star poles, ornamented with feathers, together with three totem carvings and a message stick ***