An Early Shield

An Early Shield

Estimate $3,000 – $5,000

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Lot Sold $3,000 (Hammer Price)
$3,600 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

NORTH QUEENSLAND
carved wood, red and black natural earth pigment
LENGTH: 76CM

Provenance:
Lord McAlpine of West Green
Private collection

Cf. Walter E. Roth, Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines, Brisbane: Edmund Gregory, Government Printer, 1897, pl.xxi, figs.374a, 374b and 375 for a closely related example identified as a shield manufactured in the Boulia and Upper Georgina districts.

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Aboriginal and Oceanic Art

OCEANICART | 26 Jul 2010 |
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