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Auction House:
Gibson's Auctioneers & Valuers
Number of lots recorded:18
Lots with images:18
Prices available:18
Category:
Aboriginal - Artefacts
LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** Artist Unknown (Tiwi Islands), Tutuni, Pukumani Pole, natural earth pigments on carved ironwood, 248 cm high ***
*** Artist Unknown (Tiwi Islands), Tutuni, Pukumani Pole, natural earth pigments on carved ironwood, 254 cm high ***
*** Artist Unknown (Tiwi Islands), Pukumani Pole (Pelican), natural earth pigments on carved ironwood, 279 cm high ***
*** A Barramundi totem, Central Arnhem land, natural earth pigments on wood, 44 cm high, 74 cm wide, 8.5 cm deep ***
*** Two convict love tokens, copper, late 18th century, both coins smoothed, the larger engraved with decorative initials and a motto: 'when this you see * remember me' 1772, and to the reverse, a ribbon and floral decorated shield enclosing the initials,… ***
*** An aboriginal woven pandanus mat, reputedly woven by a wife of David Malangi, 135 x 125 cm, woven area, 2 metres diameter (approx) with fringing, Provenance, Gift of the weaver, Ramingining 1979 ***
*** Two early carved wunda shields, Western Australia, the largest 80 cm long ***
*** Tiwi Island, Pukumani pole, natural earth pigments on carved wood, 70 cm high ***
*** A Queensland 'pineapple headed' club together with a bulbous headed club, the club with incised burnt decoration 83.5 cm long ***
*** John Patrick Kelantmama (born 1952), Pukumani pole, Tiwi Islands, natural earth pigments on carved wood, 80.5 cm high ***
*** Tiwi Island bird, carved and painted wood, 35.5 cm high ***
*** A ceremonial or fighting boomerang, probably central Desert region 66 cm long ***
*** A collection Aboriginal wooden vessels and weapons comprising two clubs, a small bowl, a parrying shield and a spear the spear 92 cm long ***
*** A collection of twelve indigenous spears, Central Australia, the largest 242 cm long ***
*** A sterling silver mounted Blackwood boomerang, early 20th century, the boomerang set with small shaped plaque inscribed 'The Countess of Stradbroke from members of the William Forster Try Boys Society', together with two red gum spinning tops, the… ***
*** An aboriginal wooden spear-thrower, North Queensland, with a wood peg attached at a right angle to distal end by fibre string and resin and two oval sections of bivalve shell attached to proximal end by resin, 82.5 cm long ***
*** Two Aboriginal carved boab seeds, one with aquatic scenes, the other featuring an emu, the largest 22 cm long ***
*** Jean Lycette, Pandanus basket, irregular weave of vine and twisted cord with arching stick handle, 26 cm high, 30 cm diameter approx ***