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Auction House:
Davidson Auctions
Number of lots recorded:33
Lots with images:33
Prices available:33
Category:
Aboriginal - Art
LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** Aboriginal shield. Carved white ochre filled rectangular pattern. Remnants of peg handle. Collected central West NSW. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 70 cm ***
*** Port Keats bark painting - flying fox, man & snake, Remnants of old label & rubbed inscription verso, natural earth pigments on bark (68 x 23 cm ***
*** Artist unknown, Aboriginal school Jabiru natural earth pigments on bark 65 x 43 cm ***
*** Australian Aboriginal school, Mornington Island. 'The Honeybee and the hawk Story' with typed explanatory note verso. Acrylic on bark 53 x 27 cm ***
*** Early 20th century Aboriginal Message stick. Extremely dense hardwood, full ochre coating with message both sides. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 90 cm ***
*** Namok, Rosella (b.1979), 'Reef at old Site.' cat #RNH 17. Also signed to front. Acrylic on canvas, 81 x 106 cm ***
*** 19th century Aboriginal Message stick. Hardwood, tapering form with ochre markings. Ex Tyrells collection, thence Bungan Castle Museum. Length 51 cm ***
*** Wandjina and Scorpion. Kimberley Region. Possibly Albert Barunga. Provenance: collection 1972, Late Professor Derek Freeman, Anthropologist, Australian National University. Natural pigments on sedimentary rock. Height 33 cm. Width 23 cm ***
*** Australian Aboriginal School, untitled - mimi spirit, cat #5/6/Nnii/I, natural earth pigments on bark, 67 x 38 cm ***
*** Yalandja, Owen (b.1960), Yawkyawk water spirit, 1993. Maningrida Arts and Culture descriptive certificate verso. Catalogue #YALA9/793, with accompanying Dvd of Yawkyawk legend. Ochre pigment on stringy bark, 93 x 58 cm ***
*** Two Northern Australian Aboriginal carved figures. Mid 20th century tourist trade carved and, painted figures, one bearing bush church aid Society label. Height 28 cm (tallest) ***
*** Aboriginal Kimberley Riji Bardi carved pearl shell with ochre infill. Older piece with some small edge chips. Length 200 cm ***
*** Western Australian bullroarer. Late 19th/early 20th century with red ochre infill. Beautiful patina. Length 31 cm ***
*** 2 Aboriginal bark paintings. 60 x 24 cm (largest) ***
*** Aboriginal Leangle club. Right hooking club with regular full length channels. Old ochre patination. Length 83 cm ***
*** Aboriginal bark painting. Northern Gulf area depicting rituals & hunting. Older bark, probably c.1950s. Damaged. Natural earth pigments on bark. 103 x 44 cm ***
*** Aboriginal hardwood shield with Ochre decoration. Good old patina. Height 76 cm ***
*** Western Desert Leangle club. Full length linear groovings with traces of red ochre. Length 80 cm ***
*** Aboriginal Western Desert boomerang. Full lenth linear grooving, red ochre patina, length 64 cm ***
*** Tiwi Islands carved figure. Carved ironwood goose in white ochre and cross hatched wings. Height 49 cm ***
*** Aboriginal Central Australian boomerang. Regular grooved top surface. Age and use patination, old ochre traces. Length 87 cm ***
*** Djaykurrnga, George (b.1930), 'Mimi and Namarodo Spirits.' Descriptive label verso. Oenpelli. Natural earth pigments on bark, 54 x 24 cm ***
*** Aboriginal bark painting. Male and female Mimis with hunting implements, kangaroo, goannas and water lillies. Provenance: collection 1972, late Professor Derek Freeman, Anthropologist, Australian National University. Natural pigments on bark. 37 x 104 cm ***
*** Didgeridoo. Northern Territory. Banded ochre decoration, length 127 cm ***
*** Aboriginal bark painting. Arnhem land hatched painting depicting dancers, fish, geese, turtles etc, natural earth pigments on bark, 71 x 42 cm ***
*** Two early 20th century Australian boomerangs. One Central Australian with incised parallel grooves, ochre painted; and one other. Length 77 cm and 71 cm ***
*** Three various Aboriginal bark paintings. Two oval works, One depicting snakes; other with label verso, 'Sacred Story'. Length 62 cm. (longest) ***
*** Aboriginal school Initiation Ceremony 55 x 43.5 cm Ochre on board ***
*** Early Groote Eylandt ceremonial club. Flat carved hardwood with ochre hatched head. Length 118 cm ***
*** Arnhem land ceremonial dance spear. Multi barbed point, decorated with ochre pigments. Length 222 cm ***
*** Aboriginal bark painting. Warraguk the bat. 30 x 22 cm ***
*** Early 20th century Aboriginal digging implement. Stone worked end; and ochre patina. Length 103 cm ***
*** Kemp, Roslyn Ann, 'The crocodile story', natural earth pigments on bark, 62 x 39 cm ***