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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  Emporium Auction | October 2017
• Sale Date:
  29 Oct 2017 ~ 10.30am
• Lot #:
  798
• Lot Description:
  Old Mick Walankari Tjakamarra (c.1914-1996) - Ceremonial Boomerang, Kangaroo Dreaming 1975
  Papunya, Western Desert, NT
  Mulga wood and synthetic polymer
  66cm
• Provenance:
  Provenance: Painted during 1975 at Papunya, Western Desert; Purchased at the Aboriginal and Pacific; Art Gallery in Sydney (Gabriella Roy); Private collection
• Notes:
  Traditional central Australian non symmetrical (and non-returning) boomerang made with Mulga wood and decorated with Kangaroo traces (Dreaming). For Indigenous Australian, the continent has been shaped by ancestors throwing boomerangs into earth, making the boomerang an important items during ceremonies…
• Estimate:
  A$800 - 1,200
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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