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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Marc & Elena Pinto Collection
• Sale Date:
  20 May 2015 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  16
• Lot Description:
  A Bicornual Basket (jawun)
  Herberton Gorge, North Queensland (circa 1900)
  woven lawyer cane and natural earth pigments
  23 cm high
• Provenance:
  Collected at Herberton Gorge, North Queensland (early 1900s); Private Collection, Queensland; Aboriginal Art, Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 20 July 2009, lot 6 (partial lot); The Marc and Elena Pinto Collection, Perth
• Notes:
  A jawun or two-horned basket of characteristically architectonic design, this rare and fine example in excellent condition retains much of its painted decoration. The designs in red and yellow ochre outlined in black pigment relate to those found on kidney-shaped rainforest shields. Jawun are made of woven strips of lawyer cane by both men and women of the Jirrbal and neighbouring groups in the rainforests of eastern Cape York Peninsula, from Cooktown in the north to Cardwell in the south. Jawun are unique to this region. They have a variety of uses: in ceremonies, funerals and for purposes of trade. On the quotidian level, jawun are used as carrying baskets, the larger ones big enough to carry a baby. With the horns wedged between sticks or rocks in a flowing stream, jawun are used to leach the toxins out of bush foods, and as fish traps. Wally Caruana
• Estimate:
  A$4,000 - 6,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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