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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Aboriginal Art
• Sale Date:
  26 Nov 2014 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  89
• Lot Description:
  A Tiwi Bark Basket (Tunga), Early 20th Century
  (Bathurst And Melville Islands)
  folded eucalyptus bark with natural earth pigments
  70.0 cm height
• Provenance:
  Private collection, Queensland
• Notes:
  For similar examples in the collection of Museum Victoria, Melbourne, see Cooper, C., Aboriginal Australia, Australian Gallery Directors Council, Sydney, 1981, cat. N 304, (acquisition number X18032, illus. p. [141], pl. 21, and p. 178) together with cat. N 303 and N 305 (acquisition numbers X18044, X36971, illus. p. 178); and for a very similar example in the collection of the British Museum see Bark Basket, (Tunga), acquisition number Oc1913,-.145 acquired by the Museum in 1913 as part of a collection of 58 Australian indigenous artefacts, mostly Tiwi items donated by Dr William Collings Dawson
• Estimate:
  A$2,000 - 3,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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