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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Marc & Elena Pinto Collection
• Sale Date:
  20 May 2015 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  17
• Lot Description:
  A Bicornual Basket (jawun)
  Herbert River Region, North East Queensland (nineteenth century)
  woven lawyer cane and natural earth pigments
  33.5 cm high
• Provenance:
  Muralambeen Homestead, Ingham, North Queensland (collected circa 1900); D'lan Davidson, Queensland (2006); Important Aboriginal Art, Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 24 July 2007, lot 12, illustrated; The Marc and Elena Pinto Collection, Perth
• Notes:
  I personally collected this bicornual basket (along with 12 others) at Muralambeen, which was a farming and grazing property in the Hinchinbrook Shire in Ingham. Muralambeen was established by Christopher Allingham in 1876 on the flood plain of the Herbert River and has been in the family ever since. The property employed many Indigenous workers over the years. The local women wove cylindrical carrying baskets but they traded with the neighbouring Indigenous groups to obtain Jawun (or bicornual baskets). This basket originated in the Herbert River Region and most likely made by members of the Nyawaygi or Wargamaygan groups. D'lan Davidson
• Estimate:
  A$5,000 - 7,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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