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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  An Important Private Collection
• Sale Date:
  14 Sep 2014 ~ 2.30pm
• Lot #:
  6
• Lot Description:
  A Rare Spearthrower (Womera)
  Iwaidja people, Port Essington, Northern Territory (nineteenth century)
  carved wood, natural earth pigments, kangaroo gut sinew and moulded spinifex binding
  113 cm long
• Provenance:
  Private Collection; Aboriginal Art, Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 26 - 27 2004, lot 182, illustrated; Private Collection, New South Wales
• Notes:
  For related examples collected before 1878 see Susan Davies, Collected: 150 Years of Aboriginal Art and Artifacts at the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, 2002, p.22, pl.10
• Estimate:
  A$5,000 - 7,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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