An Early and Exceptional Narrow Club

• Lot Sold $9,000 (Hammer Price)
• $10,800 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

UPPER CLARENCE RIVER, NEW SOUTH WALES  
carved and engraved hardwood, white ochre, faint traces of Reckett's blue  
LENGTH: 79CM  

Provenance:  
Alexander Stewart, Malara Goldfields,Timbarra region, NSW; thence by descent 
Private collection

Cf. Carol Cooper et al., Aboriginal Australia, Sydney: Australian Galleries Directors' Council, 1981, pp.92-93, pl. S61-62 (illus.); for related examples, see also, Isabel Wilkinson, Forgotten Country, The Story of the Upper Clarence Gold Fields, Lismore: Northern Star Print, 1978, pp.27-36, for an in depth essay on Alexander Stewart and the Malara homestead.
 
This club is sold with a copy of Isabel Wilkinson, Forgotten Country, The Story of the Upper Clarence Gold Fields, Lismore: Northern Star Print, 1978.

NB: This lot is the middle club in the accompanying photograph