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Auction House:
Davidson Auctions
Number of lots recorded:96
Lots with images:96
Prices available:96
Category:
Aboriginal - Artefacts
LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** Very rare Torres Strait armband. Turtle shell with all over incisions., Vestiges of lime infill. Length 13 cm ***
*** Fine & rare late 19th / early 20th century Spear-thrower. Stone carved, & measuring 86 cm. Arnhem Land NT. Together with a rare port Essington sword club. Provenance: ex Charles Mountford, ex Jim Davidson collection Victoria, length 145 cm (sword club) ***
*** Small & exceptional bullroarer. With beautifully incised decoration, early 20th century, WA. Private collection Adelaide, SA, length 22 cm ***
*** Australian Aboriginal shield (North-West Western Australia), early 20th century natural earth pigments on carved and incised hardwood (interlocking key designs). Length 70 cm. Provenance: Executed in the north-west of Western Australia in the early 20th… ***
*** Aboriginal bulbous club (lil lil). Very dense hardwood with use patina. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection, length 71 cm ***
*** Engraved hardwood boomerang, Southern Queensland. Together with a leangle club, length 56 cm, and 60 cm ***
*** 19th century Western NSW boomerang. Old hardwood boomerang, finely incised spindle pattern. Plain verso. Length 79 cm ***
*** 19th century Aboriginal throwing club. Finely proportioned bulbous spindle with stone worked linear striations, with a hatched pointed terminal. Age and use patina. Length 65 cm ***
*** Artist unknown, Australian Aboriginal school, large Mokoy figure, possibly Tiwi Islands, accompanied by black metal base plate unattached, natural earth pigments on wood, height 167 cm ***
*** Australian Aboriginal Wunda shield (North-West Western Australia), early 20th century natural earth pigments on carved and incised hardwood. Square ends. Length 86 cm. Provenance: Executed in the north-west of Western Australia in the early 20th century;… ***
*** Early boomerang, WA. Stoneworked. Acacia wood, wide aerofoil section length 59 cm ***
*** 19th century Aboriginal club. Of flattened form, sinuous shaft in dense hardwood. Scored full length, both sides. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. ***
*** Aboriginal early spear thrower. Smooth hardwood shaft with string & resin mounted peg. Handle has incised decoration. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 89 cm ***
*** Djunggunwanga, George (Aboriginal active 1980s), also known as, George Jangawanga. Domicile, Burunga (near Katherine) coolamon, with all over decoration. Wood and natural earth pigments. 94 x 35 cm ***
*** Central Australian Aboriginal artefacts. Including two stone knives, one with detailed label. Also two pyrographed message sticks. Length 19 cm (longest knife) ***
*** 19th century Australian Aboriginal boomerang. With stone worked, incised geometric decoration. Length 71 cm ***
*** Australian Aboriginal boomerang club (South Australia). Early 20th century. Carved and incised hardwood, length 104 cm. Provenance: Executed in the Coopers creek region of South Australia in the early 20th century; estate of Mr Gary Bradley, Victoria;… ***
*** Central Australian softwood shield. Painted with acrylic & natural earth pigments. Papunya c1960s. Length 63 cm ***
*** 19th century Aboriginal boomerang. Asymetrical club form with stone worked striations and incised grip. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 63 cm ***
*** Aboriginal Cylcon. Mildly tapered, oval form with deep incised tip and 'V' Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 19 cm ***
*** Aboriginal Northern Australia carving. Mid 20th century Maningrida carved Barramundi. Incised, X-ray view of gills, swim bladder and intestines. Length 81 cm ***
*** Tasmanian Aboriginal Marineer shell necklace. Older four strand with simple clasp, cotton strung. Silver/purple iridescent. Length 49 cm ***
*** Tasmanian Aboriginal Marineer shell necklace. Long, looped strand of smaller shells, pearly green hue. Length 87 cm (doubled) ***
*** 19th century Aboriginal shield. Lightly curved with medial line to both sides. Highly scratch decorated surface. Use patina. Length 76 cm. Provenance: Bungan castle Museum collection. ***
*** Rare & early 20th century sword club. Port Essington region NT. Private collection, Sydney. NSW, length 45 cm ***
*** Two Tasmanian Maireener shell necklaces, including four strand pink shell; and one single strand green shell. Length 46 cm (pink) and length 35 cm (green) ***
*** Queensland Aboriginal hunting boomerang. Asymetrical flattened club form. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 67 cm ***
*** Aboriginal woomera. Incised and pecked decoration. Old use patination S. E. Australia. Length 63 cm ***
*** Aboriginal dance shield. Acacia, inscribed both sides. Collected central Desert 1950s. Length 77 cm ***
*** Central Australian Aboriginal carrier. Long flat coolamon with typical central rolled sides. Natural pigments dotted decoration. Length 77 cm ***
*** Tiwi Islands carved figure. Standing male in crosshatched ironwood. Height 83 cm ***
*** Aboriginal old shield, early 20th century, natural earth pigments on carved and incised hardwood (evidence of old use), length 55 cm, other notes: Executed in Central Australia in the early 20th century. Provenance: Estate of Mr Gary Bradley, Victoria;… ***
*** Two Central Australian Aboriginal parrying shields, mid 20th century. Carved and incised mulga-wood (one with serpent designs the other linear designs), length 89 cm & 78 cm. Provenance: Executed in Central Australia in the mid 20th century; estate of Mr… ***
*** Aboriginal fish tailed ceremonial club, probably Northern Territory with polychrome hatched decoration. Length 133 cm ***
*** Aboriginal carved wood message stick. Incised geometric decoration. Very fine striated tips. Natural earth pigments, length 60 cm ***
*** Two various Aboriginal message sticks. Older, weathered hardwood with carved message to each side. Length 27 cm (each) ***
*** Aboriginal Western NSW boomerang. Long, open curved hardwood with full, length wavy incisions. Old edge losses. Length 83 cm ***
*** Various Aboriginal hair belts, cords and loin cloths ***
*** Aboriginal bone coffin. Yirrkala, Northern Territory. Ex collection Lord McAlpine and Joan Bowers. Totemic animal decoration, with stand, height 171 cm ***
*** Aboriginal message stick, Tennant Creek. Anular and track decoration. Fire hardened edges, length 75 cm ***
*** Early Indigenous hand carved wine bottle Aboriginal spirit figures wandjina. Origins likely Kimberley region, Western Australia; possibly first half 20th century height 30 cm ***
*** Rare Eastern Arnhem land Dijinba/Kopapinga tribe headdress Bal-Pal-Gudurrk. Brolga feathers embedded in beeswax. Length 60 cm ***
*** Western Australian Wunda shield. With ochre stained zig-zag grooves, 19th or early 20th century, carved wood, length 70 cm ***
*** 19th century bullroarer. With incised decoration, rubbed through years of handling, WA. Private collection SA, length 36 cm ***
*** Early 20th century Strongly carved boomerang. Willunga district, South Australia. Private collection NSW, length 97 cm ***
*** Australian Aboriginal parrying shield (North-West Western Australia), early 20th century natural earth pigments on carved and incised hardwood. Length 79 cm. Provenance: Executed in Central Australia in the mid 20th century; estate of Mr Gary Bradley,… ***
*** Australian Aboriginal shield (North-West Western Australia), early 20th century natural earth pigments on carved and incised hardwood. Length 68 cm. Provenance: Executed in the north-west of Western Australia in the mid 20th century; estate of Mr Gary… ***
*** Two Aboriginal stone drinking mugs. One from Muloorina, SA, 48km N of Maree, Se of lake Eyre, the other, Hermannsburg, NT. Length 9 cm & 16 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. ***
*** Aboriginal hunting boomerang. Open curve hockey stick style with densely incised handgrip. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 79 cm ***
*** Early Aboriginal club. Fully grooved shaft. Dense hardwood with some older stable drying splits. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. ***
*** Early Aboriginal club. Stoneworked hardwood with scratch decorated handle. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 68 cm ***
*** Aboriginal bark container. Cylindrical form ochred bark with natural resin patches. Lashed with natural fibres worked into twine, probably Western Australia. Provenance: collection 1972, late Professor Derek Freeman, Anthropologist, Australian National… ***
*** Aboriginal shark skin food scraper. String laced to carved wood paddle. Use patina. Length 38 cm ***
*** Aboriginal Western NSW boomerang. Dense acacia with linear incissions to top side. Formed nipples to each tip, loss to edge near apex. Length 64 cm ***
*** Arnhem land ceremonial sword club, string bound grip. Traces of original ochre decoration, small losses to hilt terminals, length 150 cm ***
*** Early 20th century Spear-thrower. With old pigments, & spinaflex set peg, NT. Together with a fine N W Australian spear-thrower, retaining its ochre decoration. Early 20th century. Ex collection, Jim Haas, (formerly head of Ethnographic Art department at… ***
*** Central Australian softwood coolamon. Hand painted in natural earth tones. Papunya c1960s. Length 67 cm ***
*** Aboriginal stone worked shield. Ochre and incised decoration. Length 61 cm ***
*** Early Western NSW boomerang. Club style, long boomerang in very dense hardwood. Finely incised all over the convex surface, except for the last 40 cm of the grip. Length 104 cm ***
*** Aboriginal painted shield. Acrylic on wood length 73 cm ***
*** Aboriginal carved wood message stick. Incised geometric decoration. Very fine striated tips. Natural earth pigments, length 64 cm ***
*** Early 20th century Spear-thrower. North West WA, still retaining it's original ochre decoration. Provenance: ex Jim Haas collection (formerly head of Ethnographic Art department at Bonham's San Francisco), length 121 cm ***
*** Two Aboriginal Coolamon with painted decoration, length 67 cm longest) ***
*** Large West Australian Aboriginal shield. with stone incised geometric decoration. Length 75 cm ***
*** 19th century Aboriginal nulla nulla. Fine patina, from the Murchison Region in WA. Length 64 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. ***
*** 11 various Aboriginal metal tools & spear heads. Mostly made out of horseshoes, from Dunham river station, East Kimberley, WA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. ***
*** Two various ancient Aboriginal cylcons. Two ritual pieces fashioned from fine sedimentary stone. Collected over three generations of a farming family on a Walgett property. ***
*** Femur bone club. Age and use pattination. Length 56 cm ***
*** Two Aboriginal carved churingas. Length 42 cm (Both) ***
*** Carved boomerang, depicting kangaroos and emu. L 65 cm ***
*** Two Australian Aboriginal artefacts, including fluted club; woman's club and digging stick; and woomera (spear thrower). David Said Collection, length 71 cm (digging stick) ***
*** Tiwi Kwajakor dance hat. Mornington Peninsula, human hair, bamboo, ochres, cassowary feathers. David Said Collection, height 55 cm ***
*** Tasmanian Aboriginal Marineer shell necklace. Single strand of iridised purple shells. Length 30 cm ***
*** Slender, early Spear-thrower, NT. Together with a large spear-thrower, N W Australia. Early 20th century. Provenance: ex Jim Haas collection (formerly head of Ethnographic Art department at Bonham's San Francisco), length 105 cm & 123 cm ***
*** Fine Portland club, Victoria. With pinecone handle, & bulbous head, early 20th century. Rare artifact. Provenance: ex Jim Davidson collection Melbourne; ex collection South Australia, length 70 cm ***
*** Three Aboriginal engraving tools. Materials including. Wallaby jaw, incisor tooth; kangaroo sinew; & triodia resin, Western Desert tribe, collected, Warburton range, WA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. ***
*** Two Aboriginal message sticks. Incised whorls and lines. Fine age cracks. Mid 20th century, Western Australia. Length 27 cm ***
*** Australian Aboriginal corroboree headpiece. Height 48 cm ***
*** Tasmanian Aboriginal Marineer shell necklace. Choker style with iridised pearl hue. Mid 20th century screw clasp. Length 49 cm ***
*** Aboriginal churinga, WA. Finely incised geometric decoration to one side, length 46 cm ***
*** Early ceremonial dance woomera, WA. Stoneworked incised decoration to one face. Small to edge, length 70 cm ***
*** Large Aboriginal Western Desert Dot-Painted Coolamon., carved beanwood & natural earth pigments, length 95 cm ***
*** Two Australian Aboriginal boomerangs., carved wood, a returning boomerang with dark, age patina, length 67.5 cm; and lighter coloured hunting boomerang, length 60 cm ***
*** Very early manufacture Returning boomerang. Carved in she oak (burr) Victoria. Ex Jim Davidson collection, Melbourne. Together with another boomerang, Mornington Island. Private collection South Australia, length 65 cm (2) ***
*** Extremely rare ceremonial boomerang Central Australia. Covered with down & pigments, bush string connecting both ends. Ex Brokensha collection South Australia, length 51 cm ***
*** Aboriginal grinding stone. Dug in Bundjalung country (Kyogle), c.2000, by farmer burying his dog. Provenance: provided. Length 16 cm ***
*** Three Aboriginal carved churingas. Length 43 cm (Longest) ***
*** 19th century Aboriginal parrying shield. Early shield with later rustic harbour bridge and faunal incised decoration. Vestigial ochre banding(?) under surface patina. Crude, incised signature verso. Length 55 cm ***
*** Tasmanian Aboriginal Marineer shell necklace. Older (cotton strung) strand of creamy iridescent shells. Length 56 cm (doubled) ***
*** Aged boomerang, Queensland. Mildly curved hardwood with incised spindle decoration. Old mounting hole wax filled, length 76 cm ***
*** Aboriginal message stick, Tennant Creek. Anular incised decoration. Natural earth pigments, length 8m ***
*** Aboriginal message stick, WA Le Grange Bay. Incised geometric decoration to one side, length 83 cm ***
*** Aboriginal ceremonial spear L 150 cm ***
*** Early Aboriginal club. Fine hardened tip to a slightly bulbous head, tapering to a notched grip. Use patina. Length 79 cm ***
*** Aboriginal north Queensland spear thrower. Elongated oval haft with bi-valve, handle and resin finished wooden peg. Length 73 cm ***
*** Coolamon. two ochre stenciled handprints. Possibly from north Western Australia, height 57 cm ***