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 Australi...
Read More >Aboriginal Engraved Large Fighting Boomerang
Early 1800s first contact or pre-contact superb fine rare examples. No longer available outside Museums or large Auction Houses.
35 inches (89cm). Large elegant example Coopers Creek region. ...
Read More >Aboriginal Tiwi Decorated Fighting Star Club Dance Wand (SOLD)
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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 cer...
Read More >Aboriginal Engraved Boomerangs
COMPLETE SET SOLD
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. &nbs...
Read More >Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley Grahame L. Walsh SOLD
SOLDTakarakka Nowa Kas Publications, Toowong, Queensland, Australia, 2000. Hardcover Leatherette with Paste-down Colour Illustration at Front Panel. First Edition. Very Near Fine: Binding remain...
Read More >Aboriginal Banumbirr Morning Star Poles (SOLD)
Galiwinku (Elcho Island), Northern TerritoryTallest 180cm (71inches)
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These banumbirr (morning star poles) celebrate the importance of the morning star and are used in ceremonie...
Read More >Aboriginal Spears - Tiwi Ceremonial, Port Keats Fighting, Desert Punishment, East Coast Hunting
East Coast Hunting1. Elegant long thin section non barbed example of early East Coast Aboriginal hunting & fighting spear. US $ 9502. Beautiful delicate example of an old decor...
Read More >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. Tradit...
Read More >Aboriginal South East Throwing Fighting Club
PAIR SOLD
South East Australia old fighting clubs early 1800. Sydney region NSW. Fine possum tooth engraved. Pre Contact traditional design. Perfect harmony of form and functi...
Read More >Arnhem Land Crocodile Bark Painting SOLD
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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 str...
Read More >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...
Read More >Aboriginal Fish Tail Decorated Large Club - Port Essington Style (SOLD)
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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 cl...
Read More >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 ce...
Read More >Port Keats Wadeye Spear Tips Northern Territory
Very rare set of seven intricately carved traditional ceremonial spear tip types from the early 1930s days of Port Keats mission contact.
The Murinpatha Muringar – Port Keats – Daly River languag...
Read More >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 battl...
Read More >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...
Read More >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 ...
Read More >Charlie Sylvester Nirwili Brinkin (1910-93), Port Keats Wadeye Bark Painting
Charlie Sylvester Nirwili Brinkin (Brinken) Port Keats Wadeye Bark Painting 1950s.Length 73cm (28.75 inches) x Width 42cm (16.5 inches)
Charlie Brinkin was a Murin Jedi Muringar language grou...
Read More >Rainforest Shield Petite
Rainforest Shield (petite)c1800s
Arthur Palmer Family Collection, Queensland.Outstanding old c1880s traditional example with superb original design.Rainforest shield designs present a wistful, ethere...
Read More >Aboriginal Tiwi Melville Island Northern Territory Model Canoe
Aboriginal Tiwi Melville Island Northern Territory Large Model Canoe. Polychrome natural earth ochre pigments on wood. Circa WWII. Length 57cm (22.5") Height 11cm (4.5") Width 10cm (4").
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Read More >Otto Pareroultja (1914 - 1973) Aboriginal Hermannsburg Watercolour, Central Australia
Three brilliant, bright examples containing Otto's traditional secret iconography.
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Read More >Aboriginal Rainforest Shield Circa 1880
Beautiful, delicate example of perfect composition and etheral vestige of ochre face design.
Length 39cm (15.5 inches) Width 19cm (7.5 inches)
USD $5,500
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Read More >Aboriginal Bicornual Lawyer Cane Basket
North Queensland rainforest 1870s exquisite delicate example.
Height 26cm (10 inches) Width 30cm (12 inches) Opening Diameter 20cm (8 inches).
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Read More >Aboriginal Tiwi Pukamani Basket (SOLD)
Tiwi Bathurst Island Traditional Pukamani Basket C1970. Polychrome natural earth pigments on folded Stringy Bark sheet with cane seam binding. These mortuary baskets held gifts for the Pukamani Ceremo...
Read More >Aboriginal Bark Coolomon (SOLD)
Aboriginal Painted and Pleated Stringy Bark Coolomon. Natural Earth Ochre Pigments and Aboriginal Bush String. Quail running between mountains and water course. Kalumbaru, Kimberley Western Australia....
Read More >Aboriginal Bark Crocodile Painting SOLD
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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...
Read More >Aboriginal Coolamon SOLD
Large, hardwood Djaru carrying dish. South Eastern Kimberley Western Australia. Good residual earth ochre and charcoal decoration, deep dark, rich age patina. Length 65cm (25.5 inche...
Read More >Aboriginal Parrying Shield SOLD
South East Australian Upper parrying shield mid 1800s. Length 70cm (27.5 inches) depth at handle 8cm (3.2 inches). Large, early, fully incised concentric diamond decoration face and dot obverse. Rare,...
Read More >Aboriginal Wunda Shield (SOLD)
Early rare example of the concave face handle design from the Gascoyne / Murchison Rivers Western Australia. Widely associated with men's cults, rituals and ceremonies, this shield is held in high reg...
Read More >Aboriginal Hooked Fighting Boomerang (No. 7 Wilki)
COMPLETE SET SOLD
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 ...
Read More >Aboriginal Returning Hunting Boomerang
Largest in photo 80cm (32 inches) example only of some 700 boomerangs in stock from the 1800s. Good provenance and use descriptions.
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Read More >Aboriginal Fighting Boomerang
19th Century wallaby tooth tula incised, fluted totemic, water track and traditional estate decoration. Hardwood. Length 77cm (30 inches). Larger 1800s examples available in stock with good provenance...
Read More >Aboriginal Leangle Club SOLD
Extremely early ancient example displaying large, heavy bulbed head final and conical pointed beak section similar to wood and stone headed fightling pick types from the lake Eyre Desert area. Fluted ...
Read More >Aboriginal Throwing Clubs
South East Queensland C1840. Fine possum tooth engraved, fluted design full length. Perfect harmony of form and function weight, balance and conformation. Used in both battle and for hunting game. Dee...
Read More >Aboriginal Engraved Pearl Shell Pendant SOLD
Aboriginal pearl shell phallocrypt djagoli with spun human hair string attachment through bored hole. Djaru Walmadjari Language Group Sturt Creek Station, Kimberley, Western Australia. Interlocking en...
Read More >Aboriginal Engraved Pearl Shell
Aboriginal pearl shell phallocrypt djagoli with spun human hair string attachment through bored hole. Djaru Walmadjari Language Group Sturt Creek Station, Kimberley, Western Australia. Inter...
Read More >Aboriginal Hunting Boomerang
Selection of 1800s returning boomerangs, stone or tooth tula carved and fluted. Largest 80cm (31.5 inches).
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