Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art - 14 October 2009 | Melbourne
Lot 230
Artefacts And Carvings
Western Australia,
19th century
A SPEARTHROWER
19th century
of leaf like form, tapering to a knob handle at the base encrusted with spinifex resin, a wooden peg attached at the top with spinifex resin and sinew, the front decorated with linear zig-zag design and indentations, the reverse with adze makings, old repair to the top and old patina
73.0 cm length
Estimate:
$3,500 - 4,500
Lot Details
Description
Artefacts And Carvings
Western Australia,
19th century
A SPEARTHROWER
19th century
of leaf like form, tapering to a knob handle at the base encrusted with spinifex resin, a wooden peg attached at the top with spinifex resin and sinew, the front decorated with linear zig-zag design and indentations, the reverse with adze makings, old repair to the top and old patina
73.0 cm length
Provenance
Collected in the 1890s
Private collection, Melbourne