Aboriginal La Grange Karajarri Woomera
Arthur Beau Palmer Family Collection, Queensland.
La Grange Karajarri woomera of the finest Museum quality. Extremely large, very early old example in fine condition. SW Kimberley of Western Australia....
Aboriginal Engraved Large Fighting Boomerang
No longer available outside Museums or large Auction Houses.
- 35 inches (89cm). Large elegant example Coopers Creek region. Deep ra...
Aboriginal Tiwi Decorated Fighting Star Club Dance Wand (SOLD)
Tiwi Islands Bathurst & Melville Islands NT.
Very early, fine beautiful old exceedingly rare type of TIWI crossed boomerang star club or dance wand. May be a derivative of the forked ceremonial cl...
Aboriginal Engraved Boomerangs
Early 1800s first contact or pre-contact. Superb fine and rare examples. No longer available outside Museums or large O/S Auction Houses.
1. 64cm. SOLD E Desert Qld NSW. Pinche...
Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley Grahame L. Walsh SOLD
Takarakka Nowa Kas Publications, Toowong, Queensland, Australia, 2000.
Hardcover Leatherette with Paste-down Colour Illustration at Front Panel.
First Edition. Very Near Fine: Binding remains per...
Aboriginal Banumbirr Morning Star Poles (SOLD)
Galiwinku (Elcho Island), Northern Territory
Tallest 180cm (71inches)
SOLD
These banumbirr (morning star poles) celebrate the importance of the morning star and are used in ceremonies in north-eastern...
Aboriginal Spears - Tiwi Ceremonial, Port Keats Fighting, Desert Punishment, East Coast Hunting
East Coast Hunting
1. Elegant long thin section non barbed example of early East Coast Aboriginal hunting & fighting spear.
US $ 950
2. Beautiful delicate example of an old decorated perforated ridge...
Aboriginal Battle Clubs Nail Pineapple Pandanus
COMPLETE SET SOLD
1. Pineapple Pandanus head battle club.
Large long heavy robust fighting example. Deep finely fluted full length of shaft. Very hard dense wood. Traditional gnarled handle grip. ...
Aboriginal South East Throwing Fighting Club
South East Australia old fighting clubs early 1800. Sydney region NSW.
Fine possum tooth engraved. Pre Contact traditional design. Perfect harmony of form and function weight, balance and...
Arnhem Land Crocodile Bark Painting SOLD
Large, superbly executed fine rarrk cross hatching master work.
Dynamic totemic crocodile subject - old bark example.
Beautiful and bright as collected condition.
Stringers & all bush string binding ...
Aboriginal Leangle Club S.E. Australia
Extremely early ancient example displaying flat bulbed head final and convex section similar to boomerang types from this area. Fluted and decorated handle section with bee hive rat tail grip final. C...
Aboriginal Fish Tail Decorated Large Club - Port Essington Style (SOLD)
Superb fine cross hatched red, yellow & white ochre rarrk design on both sides of blade & extending along shaft. Old trade cloth & bush cord bound handle.
An old hardwood battle club used in close...
Tiwi Pukamani Spears
Ceremonial spears were used in Tiwi mortuary ceremonies known as Pukamani. The highly stylised painted artefacts for which Tiwi people are world-famous are produced as part of these elaborate ceremon...
Port Keats Wadeye Spear Tips Northern Territory
The Murinpatha Muringar – Port Keats – Daly River language grou...
Aboriginal Tiwi Forked Club
A very early, fine old forked ceremonial club, Tjapara Timirrikamara from the Tiwi Islands Bathurst & Melville Islands Northern Territory.
These were used in Pukamani ceremony and in Ritual battle.
This...
Aboriginal Torres Strait Islands Dugong Hunting Wap and 4 Barbed Tips
Traditional shark mouth totem carved Wap head and four kuurr tips.
Dugong, (dhangal), were traditionally hunted with a wap (harpoons) which were used to capture the dugong from a Nath (hunting platform...
Rex Batterbee Albert Namatjira Hermannsburg Landscape 1936
In the winter of 1936, Rex Battarbee provided Albert Namatjira with two months watercolour tuition while on a journey into the heart of the tribal land of the Western Aranda. Albert Namatjira offered ...
Charlie Sylvester Nirwili Brinkin (1910-93), Port Keats Wadeye Bark Painting
Length 73cm (28.75 inches) x Width 42cm (16.5 inches)
Charlie Brinkin was a Murin Jedi Muringar language group man who...
Rainforest Shield Petite
c1800s
Arthur Palmer Family Collection, Queensland.
Outstanding old c1880s traditional example with superb original design.
Rainforest shield designs present a wistful, ethereal...
Aboriginal Tiwi Melville Island Northern Territory Model Canoe
Otto Pareroultja (1914 - 1973) Aboriginal Hermannsburg Watercolour, Central Australia
Aboriginal Rainforest Shield Circa 1880
Length 39cm (15.5 inches) Width 19cm (7.5 inches)
USD $5,500
Aboriginal Bicornual Lawyer Cane Basket
Height 26cm (10 inches) Width 30cm (12 inches) Opening Diameter 20cm (8 inches).
Aboriginal Tiwi Pukamani Basket (SOLD)
Aboriginal Bark Coolomon (SOLD)
Aboriginal Bark Crocodile Painting SOLD
Large, brilliant early example. Attributed Yirawala or Curly Bardkardubbu 1960s Maningrida Arnhem Land Northern Territory. 57cm (22 inches) x 91cm (57 inches). Ex Lawsons Sydney May 1999 Lot 412 "...
Aboriginal Coolamon SOLD
Aboriginal Parrying Shield SOLD
Aboriginal Wunda Shield (SOLD)
Aboriginal Hooked Fighting Boomerang (No. 7 Wilki)
Selection of some 30 of these Central Desert fighting and ceremonial boomerangs. Early examples from the Southern fighting pick style to the graceful swan neck, fully fluted Walbri Mu...