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Lot #21 - Maker Unknown (Queensland and Lake Eyre region, South Australia) - Two boomerangs

  • Auction House:
    Bonhams Australia
  • Sale Name:
    Important Australian Art
  • Sale Date:
    29 Nov 2022 ~ 6pm (AEST)
  • Lot #:
    21
  • Lot Description:
    Maker Unknown (Queensland and Lake Eyre region, South Australia) - Two boomerangs
    RELATED EXAMPLE: Philip Jones, Boomerang: Behind an Australian Icon, Wakefield Press, South Australia, 2007, cat. A5576, p. 17 (illus.), which suggests that the carvings may relate to the path of a Dreaming ancestor. For another boomerang with related designs see cat. A5591, p. 56 (illus.)
    carved and engraved hardwood
    lengths: 80.0cm (31 1/2in). and 73.5cm (28 15/16in).
    one inscribed with Holt Collection cat. '155H'
  • Provenance:
    Collection of the Late Dr Gerald Holt, cat. 155H (left example); Sotheby's, Sydney, March 1983 (left example); Robert Bleakley Collection, New South Wales
  • Estimate:
    A$3,000 - 5,000
  • Realised Price:
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  • Category:
    Tribal

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