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Important Aboriginal Tribal Art — Vickers & Hoad Auctioneers

Auction House:Vickers & Hoad AuctioneersNumber of lots recorded:140
Sale Title:Important Aboriginal Tribal ArtLots with images:140
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:81
Date:10-Sep-2022
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Early throwing club, Victoria. Carved and engraved hardwood. Approx length 60 x 3.5 cm. Provenance: Jeff Fischer, Adelaide. Private Collection, South Australia.
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Early throwing club, Lake Tyers area, Victoria. Carved and engraved hardwood. The curving shaft of circular section terminating in bulbous head at the distal ends. With conical section at the proximal end encircled with engraved ridges and pecked markings for gripping, old glossy patina. Approx length 67 x 3.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, South Australia.
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Large throwing club, Lake Tyers area, Victoria carved and engraved hardwood. Approx length 70 x 4 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, South Australia.
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Throwing club, Lake Tyers area, Victoria. Carved and engraved hardwood. Approx length 64 x 4 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, South Australia.
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Throwing club, Lake Tyers area, Victoria. Carved and engraved hardwood. Approx length 64 x 4 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, South Australia.
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Fine early bulbous headed club, South East Victoria. Carved and engraved hardwood. Approx length 62 x 5.5 cm. Provenance: Jeff Fischer, Adelaide. Private Collection, South Australia.
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Early throwing club, Victoria. Carved and engraved hardwood. The curving shaft of circular section terminating in bulbous head at the distal ends. With conical section at the proximal end encircled with engraved ridges and pecked markings for gripping, old glossy patina. Approx length 67 x 4 cm. Provenance: Colin Young. McCanns Auctions, Melbourne, Victoria. Private Collection, South Australia.
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Incised club, Lake Tyers area, Victoria. Carved and engraved hardwood. Approx length 75 x 6 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, South Australia.
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Large throwing club, Condah lakes, Victoria. Carved and engraved hardwood. The curving shaft of circular section terminating in bulbous head at the distal ends. With conical section at the proximal end encircled with engraved ridges. Approx length 87 x 4.5 cm. Provenance: Graham Krake, Melbourne, Victoria. Private Collection, South Australia.
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Elongated bulbous throwing club, Lake Tyers, Victoria. Carved and engraved hardwood. Approx length 42 x 4.5 cm. Provenance: ray Dalton, Bendigo, Victoria. Private Collection, South Australia.
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Utmurra boomerang, Kimberley Region, Western Australia carved hardwood. Approx length 61.5 x 7 cm. Provenance: made by Utmurra 1979 Mary Macha, Perth, Western Australia. Private Collection, South Australia. Private Collection, Queensland.
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Fine hunting boomerang, Central Australia. Carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigments. Classic hunting boomerang, the front decorated with finely fluted design, finely adzed on the reverse, coated with red ochre. Approx length 75 x 6.5 cm. Provenance: Ex collection of Nicholas R. Burke, Washington D.C. Quinn's auction Galleries, United States. Private Collection, New South Wales.
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Early hunting boomerang, Central Australia, Northern Territory. Carved hardwood and natural pigments. Classic hunting boomerang, the front decorated with finely fluted design, finely adzed on the reverse, coated with red ochre, fine dark patina. Approx length 72 x 6 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Queensland.
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Early engraved boomerang, Western New South Wales / Southern Queensland. Carved and engraved hardwood. Of convex section with clipped ends, the front incised with linear linked ovoid designs, the reverse with adzed surface, old patina overall. Approx length 58 x 7 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Queensland.
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Fine early fighting boomerang, Rockhampton Region, Queensland. Carved and engraved hardwood. Approx length 62.5 x 5.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Queensland.
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Early returning boomerang, New South Wales. Carved and adzed hardwood. Of thin bi-convex section shaped like an arc, old black patina overall. Approx length 56.5 x 6 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, United Kingdom. Private Collection, Queensland.
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Rare early boomerang, Victoria. Carved hardwood. Of thin bi-convex section with ribbed surface and old dark patina. Approx length 75 x 8 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, United Kingdom. Private Collection, Queensland.
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Early returning boomerang, Lake Tyers, Victoria. Carved and engraved wood. Approx length 51.5 x 4.5 cm. Provenance: Roger Dundas, Portland, Victoria. Private Collection, South Australia.
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Early Mission boomerang, Lake Tyers, Victoria. Carved and engraved wood. Approx length 48.5 x 7.5 cm. Provenance: Stephen Sinclair, Adelaide auction. Private Collection, South Australia.
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Rare early boomerang, Victoria. Carved hardwood. Of thin bi-convex section with ribbed surface and old dark patina. Approx length 60 x 7 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, United Kingdom. Private Collection, Queensland.
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Early Adzed Western Desert boomerang, Western Australia. Carved hardwood. Of plano-convex section, the surfaces with finely adzed markings. Approx length 51 x 6 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, South Australia.
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Boomerang, South East Australian. Carved hardwood. Approx length 52 x 6 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, South Australia private Collection, Queensland.
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Boomerang, New South Wales. Carved hardwood. Of thin bi-convex section and surface with black dark patina. Approx length 66 x 5.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Queensland.
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Large boomerang, Mornington Island, Queensland. Carved hardwood. Approx length 82 x 11.5 cm. Provenance: Lawsons auction, Sydney. Private Collection, Queensland.
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Rare early stone Hafted axe, Gippsland, Victoria. Carved stone, bent wood and spinifex resin. This hafted stone axe head held in place with resin and the wooden handle is bent around the head and secured at the head with an interlaced band with vegetable fibre. Approx length 39.5 x 10 cm. Provenance: Jack Byham, Cobram, Victoria. Private Collection, South Australia.
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Five early stone implements, Western New South Wales. Carved stone. Approx lengths 5 cm to 15 cm Provenance: Private Collection, Queensland.
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Fine large Arnhem land didgeridoo, Northern Territory. Carved hardwood and natural pigments. Painted with totemic designs and fine hatchwork in white, yellow and red ochres. Approx length 158 x 12.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, New South Wales.
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Coiled basket, Victor Harbour, South Australia. Woven plant fibre. Approx length 17 x 7 cm. Provenance: Jeff Fischer, Adelaide, South Australia. Private Collection, South Australia.
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Coiled basket, Lake Alexandrina, South Australia. Woven plant fibre. Approx length 38 x 25 cm Provenance: Repair by Connie Hart Jeff Fischer, Adelaide, South Australia. Private Collection, South Australia.
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Coiled basket, Lake Alexandrina, South Australia. Woven plant fibre. The basket is made from fibre using a coiled basketry technique. It has an oval shape with a flat base and straight sides that are slightly warped. A handle extends from the weave on one side of basket and arcs across the centre to the opposing side. Approx length 27 x 23 cm. Provenance: C1910-1920. Colleen Morrow, Adelaide, South Australia. Private Collection, South Australia.
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Coiled basket, Victoria. Woven plant fibre. Approx length 31 x 26 cm. Provenance: Berry Bank Roadhouse. Private Collection, South Australia.
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Pandanus dilly bags, Arnhem land, Northern Territory. Woven plant fibre. A dilly bag (burlupurr in Burarra or kunmadj in Kunwinjku) is a large woven collecting basket. These large baskets or bags are often made from Pandanus spiralis, a plant which grows in many areas of Arnhem land. Approx length 28 x 24 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Queensland.
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Collection of rare early C. 1900 glass lantern slides. Glass; paper; ink. Collection of 10 photographic glass magic lantern slides featuring a portrait by John William Lindt. Approx length 8 x 8 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, New South Wales.
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Rare 1983 Sotheby's catalogue featuring the Holt collection. Australian Aboriginal and Melanesian works of Art from the Holt collection and other owners, Sotheby's Australia Pty. Ltd. Publisher: Sydney, Sotheby's Australia, 1983. Approx length 24.5 x 18 cm.
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Rare complete collection of Lindsay black first edition booklets. The Bora ground, black Lindsay, 1944 first edition Aboriginal Art Galleries of Western New South Wales. Part 3, 1943 first edition stone Arrangements, black Lindsay, 1950 first edition Cylcons: the mystery stones of the Darling River valley, black Lindsay, 1942 first edition Burial trees, black Lindsay, 1941 first edition. Approx length 23 x 14.5 cm.
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Rare important 2 volume of American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem land, Mountford P. Charles. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem land. Volume 1: Art, Myth and Symbolism. Carlton, Melbourne University press, 1956 first edition records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem land. Volume 2: Anthropology and Nutrition. Carlton, Melbourne University press, 1960 first edition. Approx length 25.5 x 19.5 cm
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Important 2 volume of the Queensland Aborigines by Walter E. Roth. North Queensland Ethnography: Bulletin no. 9 -18 as Vol. VI VII and VIII of the records of the Australian Museum. Walter E. Roth, Sydney 1907 -1910 first edition. The Queensland Aborigines volume 2 contains Bulletins 1-8 of north Queensland Ethnography from the home Secretary's Department, Brisbane, 1901-1908. Walter E. Roth, Perth: Hesperian press, 1984. Facsimile edition. Approx lengths 25 cm, 31.5 cm.
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The Australian Aboriginal by Basedow Herbert. The Australian Aboriginal. Basedow, Herbert Adelaide, F.W. Preece and Sons, 1925 first edition. Octavo, XX, 422 pages with 57 illustrations plus a colour frontispiece and 88 plates (all but 2 from photographs by the author). Approx length 22 x 15 cm.
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Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginal by W Ramsay Smith. Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals.; with 16 colour plates by Alice Woodward by Ramsay Smith, W Harrap, London, ^$1930. 4to, pp.356 + 58p. illustrations, plates and photographs. Approx length 23 x 16 cm.
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A collection of three related Aboriginal Art and culture publications. A Black Civilization: A Social Study of an Australian Tribe by William Lloyd Warner, Harper & Brothers, 1937 Aboriginal woman: sacred and Profane by Kaberry, Phyllis; introduction by a. P. Elkin. New York: Humanities press, 1939 first edition. Archaeological Research in Kakadu National Park.Jones, Rhys (editor). Canberra: Australian National University / Australian National Parks and Wildlife service, 1985. First edition. Approx lengths…
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