GROUP OF TEN THROWING CLUBS

Important Aboriginal Art
Melbourne
26 March 2014
155

ARTIST UNKNOWN (QUEENSLAND)

GROUP OF TEN THROWING CLUBS

carved wood

varying sizes up to 72.0 cm length

Estimate: 
$3,000 - 4,000 (10)
Sold for $3,600 (inc. BP) in Auction 34 - 26 March 2014, Melbourne
Provenance

Collection of John Atherton, Queensland
Thence by descent
Private collection, Brisbane

Catalogue text

John Atherton (1837 - 1913) was an early pioneer in north Queensland who settled the Atherton Tableland near Mareeba and the area around Rockhampton in the 1870s. He assembled a collection of weapons and tools from these regions and across Australia and the Pacific. The collection was passed to his son, Ernest Albert Atherton, who continued the legacy throughout Queensland and central Australia as Minister for Mines.