A Rainforest Shield
A Rainforest ShieldEstimate $18,000 – $25,000
- Lot Sold $16,000 (Hammer Price)
- $19,200 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
NORTH EAST QUEENSLAND
carved fig wood, red, white and yellow earth pigments
LENGTH: 102CM
Provenance:
Collected by the Westcott family who originally took up land for growing sugar cane at Mourilyan, south of Innisfail in the 1930s. They provided work and shelter for the original inhabitants of the land and in return they presented the Westcotts this old shield; thence by descent
Michael Hamson Oceanic Art, USA
Private collection