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• Auction House:
  Leonard Joel
• Sale Name:
  Aboriginal Art & Artefacts
• Sale Date:
  10 Oct 2013 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  185
• Lot Description:
  A Fine Ceremonial Bullroarer, Mornington Island, Qld, C.1950s-60s
  carved wood, pointed oblong bullroarer incised and painted in natural earth pigments with an image of a female torso on the convex side and traditional designs on the obverse. Attached by string, a wooden handle painted with pigment and at the tip decorat
  44cm (Bullroarer length) 48cm (handle length)
• Provenance:
  Gifted in the 1950s-60s to Dr Tim O'Leary, a Flying Doctor who worked in Cape York, the Gulf of Carpentaria and Torres Strait for almost three decades from 1953 until 1980. Thence by descent, Melbourne
• Estimate:
  A$1,500 - 2,500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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