Unknown Artist

(BATHURST AND MELVILLE ISLANDS), early 20th Century

folded eucalyptus bark with natural earth pigments

70.0 cm height

Estimate:
$2,000 - $3,000

Sold:
$2,400 (inc. BP)

Lot 89

Unknown Artist

(BATHURST AND MELVILLE ISLANDS), early 20th Century

lot details

(BATHURST AND MELVILLE ISLANDS), early 20th Century
folded eucalyptus bark with natural earth pigments
70.0 cm height
Provenance

Private collection, Queensland

Related Works

For similar examples in the collection of Museum Victoria, Melbourne, see Cooper, C., Aboriginal Australia, Australian Gallery Directors Council, Sydney, 1981, cat. N 304, (acquisition number X18032, illus. p. [141], pl. 21, and p. 178) together with cat. N 303 and N 305 (acquisition numbers X18044, X36971, illus. p. 178); and for a very similar example in the collection of the British Museum see Bark Basket, (Tunga), acquisition number Oc1913,-.145 acquired by the Museum in 1913 as part of a collection of 58 Australian indigenous artefacts, mostly Tiwi items donated by Dr William Collings Dawson