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Rare Australian Aboriginal…
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Rare Australian Aboriginal painted ceremonial post, North West Western Australian, decorated with painted Aboriginal artwork, length 75 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Queensland. Catalogue note from "Aboriginal Artifacts": "The ceremonial post was, apparently, in fairly common use among the Aboriginal tribes. The first lessee of Kulgera station, near the border between South Australia and the Northern Territory, noticed that the Aborigines had a carved and painted post on a ceremonial ground in the granite hills a mile or so from where he had built his homestead..there are paintings in the caves and evidence that ceremonial tribal regalia has been stored there in the past..the ceremonial post was burned when it had practically rotten away" (McCourt 1975, p. 58).
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