Lot 141
  • 141

TWO EXCEPTIONAL SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HARDWOOD FIGHTING BOOMERANGS

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 AUD
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Description

  • Lengths: 93 cm, 90 cm
of bi-convex section and gentle curvature, the entire surfaces engraved with finely fluted linear and pecked designs probably representing travels of ancestral figures

Provenance

Acquired by a carpenter working on Anlady Station, Mid-North South Australia, at the turn of the century
Private collection, South Australia
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, 26 and 27 June 2000, Melbourne, lot 179
Private collection, Victoria

Condition

In very good condition; a small chip 2 cm long at the end of the back of one of the boomerangs.
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