A PAIR OF SMALL RAINFOREST SHIELDS

decorated with traditional designs painted in orange, yellow, white and black natural earth pigments

47.0 and 54.0 cm length

Estimate:
$4,000 - $6,000 (2)

Sold:
$4,270 (inc. BP)

Lot 51

Queensland, c.1940

A PAIR OF SMALL RAINFOREST SHIELDS

lot details

Queensland, c.1940
A PAIR OF SMALL RAINFOREST SHIELDS
decorated with traditional designs painted in orange, yellow, white and black natural earth pigments
47.0 and 54.0 cm length
Provenance

Collected in North East Arnhem Land by the vendor’s father in the early 1960s
Thence by descent
Private collection, Melbourne