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• Auction House:
  Leonard Joel
• Sale Name:
  Aboriginal Art & Artefacts
• Sale Date:
  10 Oct 2013 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  183
• Lot Description:
  Four Spears, Mornington Island, Qld C.1950s-60s
  decorated barbed spears with wood spear tips bound into long cane shafts with natural bush fibre
  i) 204cm, spear tips decorated with snake motifs in acrylic and feathers; ii) 204.5cm, spear tips decorated with black circles in acrylic along spine; iii) 149cm; iv) 148cm
• Provenance:
  Gifted in the 1950s-60s to Dr Tim O'Leary, a Flying Doctor who worked in the Cape York, Gulf of Carpentaria and Torres Strait for almost three decades from 1953 until 1980. Thence by descent, Melbourne
• Estimate:
  A$1,200 - 1,800
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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