Property from an American Private Collection
A Fighting Club, Victoria
Auction Closed
May 25, 09:41 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an American Private Collection
A Fighting Club, Victoria
Circa 1850
Carved and engraved hardwood
27 ¼ in (69.2 cm)
Clive Loveless, London
American Private Collection, acquired from the above
American Private Collection, acquired from the above
Robert Brough Smyth noted that "the club or waddy called by the natives of the Yarra River, kud-jee-run or Kud-jer-oong is used mostly in single combat, when both combatants are provided with the strong shield. Blows are aimed at the head only with this weapon. To strike another part would be deemed unfair." (R. Brough Smyth, The Aborigines of Victoria, Melbourne, 1878, p. 299).
See C. Cooper, Aboriginal Australia, Australian Gallery Directors Council, Sydney, 1981, pp. 90-91, cat. nos. S56-59, for a series of later examples, and R. Brough Smyth, ibid.
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