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...

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. ...

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 cer...

 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...

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...

    Galiwinku (Elcho Island), Northern TerritoryTallest 180cm (71inches) SOLD These banumbirr (morning star poles) celebrate the importance of the morning star and are used in ceremonie...

  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...

 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...

 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...

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 str...

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...

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 cl...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 (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...

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...

Keith Namatjira, Hermannsburg C1950s. H 22" (56cm). ...

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"). ...

Three brilliant, bright examples containing Otto's traditional secret iconography. ...

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 ...

North Queensland rainforest 1870s exquisite delicate example. Height 26cm (10 inches) Width 30cm (12 inches) Opening Diameter 20cm (8 inches).    ...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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 ...

Largest in photo 80cm (32 inches) example only of some 700 boomerangs in stock from the 1800s. Good provenance and use descriptions. ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Selection of 1800s returning boomerangs, stone or tooth tula carved and fluted. Largest 80cm (31.5 inches). ...