(WESTERN AUSTRALIA)

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
27 March 2013
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A SPEARTHROWER AND A BOOMERANG

(WESTERN AUSTRALIA)

carved and shaped wood, the handle of the spearthrower encrusted with spinifex resin, the wooden peg at the top attached with natural fibres and the front decorated with intricate zig-zag designs; the convex face of the boomerang replete with fine adze markings

64.5 cm and 57.0 cm height

Estimate: 
$1,000 - 1,200 (2)
Sold for $1,440 (inc. BP) in Auction 28 - 27 March 2013, Melbourne
Provenance

Private collection, Melbourne