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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Australian Indigenous & Oceanic Art
• Sale Date:
  21 Jul 2015 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  4
• Lot Description:
  An Important Boomerang
  Coopers Creek or Darling River Region, Western New South Wales, (mid-late nineteenth century)
  carved hardwood and natural earth pigments
  71 cm long
• Provenance:
  The Holt Collection, Sydney (cat. no. H801); Private Collection, Sydney
• References:
  For a related example see: Philip Jones, Boomerang: Behind An Australia Icon, Wakefield Press, South Australia, 1997, pg. 64 Dr Philip Jones suggests that one way of approaching this example is to look at the tendency towards the lil-lil type, where the flattened and broader end of a boomerang becomes the blade of the lil-lil. There are some examples of more gracile forms of this type, where the broadening occurs not at the end, as in the classic lil-lil, but towards the middle. The South Aust
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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