Inlaid axe, new Georgia Island, Solomon Islands. Carved hardwood steel, wood, shell, plant paste. Axe-steel blade, trade, wood haft, upper portion inlaid with geometric shaped nautilus shell cutouts set in black parinarium paste, length 107 x 18 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, United Kingdom a distinguished. Private collection, Sydney Sotheby's, Melbourne, 28 May 2013,The Anthony & Beverly knight collection of early Papunya Art / important Aboriginal & Oceanic Art, lot 110. Private collection, Sydney