Important Aboriginal Art
Catalog Information: 286 lots with images
Date: 2007
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
Australia
Lot 1: AN EARLY AND EXCEPTIONAL ENGRAVED CLUB, SOUTH AUSTRALIA,
of bi-convex section, the entire surface with fine traditional designs engraved with a possum jaw or similar engraver, divided into thirteen sections, a series of notches running down the entire length of both ridges, dark shiny patina overall
Lot 3: TOMMY McRAE , RETURNING FROM THE CHASE c.1890
Bears title in pencil lower margin Ink on paper
Lot 4: A COLLECTION OF DARLING RIVER ARTEFACTS,
including an exceptional Lil-Lil shaped club with finely adzed surface and dark shiny patina (58 cm), a parrying shield of lozenge section with incised and varying geometric linear designs infilled with traces of white pigment (66 cm), together with [...more]
Lot 5: A BROAD SHIELD, LOWER MURRAY RIVER, SOUTH AUSTRALIA,
carved in hardwood of lozenge shape tapering to form elongated extended ends, front decorated with engraved zig-zag motifs infilled with white and some areas of red pigment, pierced with two holes to the centre and inset with bentwood handle, the rev [...more]
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