Lot #21 - Maker Unknown (Queensland and Lake Eyre region, South Australia) - Two boomerangs
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Auction House:Bonhams Australia
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Sale Name:Important Australian Art
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Sale Date:29 Nov 2022 ~ 6pm (AEST)
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Lot #:21
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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
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Estimate:A$3,000 - 5,000
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Realised Price:
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Category:Tribal
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