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Spirit Carving - Tall Standing Figure with Label
Carved and painted wood, height: 167 cm
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Two Painted and Carved Tiwi Island Bird Figures
Carved wood, heights: 58 cm and 42 cm
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A Tiwi Islands Painted Pole; Two Painted and Carved Tiwi Islands Owl Figures
Carved wood, height: 45.5 cm; 28 cm and 39 cm
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Wind Charm, 1960s
Natural earth pigments on carved wood, 52.5 x 15 cm
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A Leangle Club
Carved hardwood with shiny old patina, 71 cm length
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A Parrying Shield
Carved hardwood of elongated form, decorated with incised traditional designs, old shiny patina, old label attached to front, 80 cm length
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A South East Australian Parrying Shield and Club
Carved hardwood, 92 cm and 78 cm length
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A Pair of Rare Clubs
Carved and incised hardwood, each with blade-like biconvex distal ends decorated with engraved designs on both sides, th, 69 cm and 62.5 cm length
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A Tiwi Bark Basket, Tunga
Folded eucalyptus bark with natural earth pigments, 70 cm height
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A Boomerang and Throwing Club
Carved hardwood with old shiny patina, 87 cm and 70 cm length
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A Rainforest Shield
Carved fig wood with red, white and yellow earth pigments and black charcoal outline, 60 cm length
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A Small Rainforest Shield
Carved fig wood with red, white and yellow earth pigments, 36 cm length
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A Gulmari Shield
Carved fig wood with natural earth pigments, 69.5 cm length
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Three Hardwood Boomerangs
Incised hardwood with old shiny patina, 86 cm, 75 cm and 85 cm length
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Totemic Fish, 1970s
Carved softwood with natural earth pigments, 43.5 cm length
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A Pair of Totemic Fish, Early 1960s
Carved softwood with natural earth pigments, 30.5 cm and 29 cm length
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Totemic Bird, C1980
Carved hardwood with natural earth pigments, 44.5 cm height
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Djanda the Sacred Goanna, 1970s
Carved softwood with natural earth pigments, 75 cm length
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Totemic Turtle, 1970s
Carved hardwood with natural earth pigments, 40.5 cm length
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An Early Rainforest Shield, North East Queensland
Natural earth pigments on carved softwood, height: 60 cm
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A Rare Spearthrower (Womera) Iwaidja People, Port Essington, Northern Territory (nineteenth Century)
Carved wood, natural earth pigments, kangaroo gut sinew and moulded spinifex binding, 113 cm long
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An Early Spearthrower (Womera) Queensland (nineteenth Century)
Carved hardwood, spinifex binding and bailer shells, 76 cm long
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An Early Bicornual Basket North Queensland (Nineteenth Century)
Woven lawyer cane, 48.5 x 41 cm
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A Rare Shield Northern New South Wales (Circa 1900)
Natural earth pigments on carved wood, height 56.5 cm
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A Rare and Early Club Queensland (Nineteenth Century)
Carved hardwood, 63 cm high
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A Superb Early Water Carrying Vessel, South West Queensland (Nineteenth Century)
Carved wood, 14 x 25 x 13 cm
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A Rare Form of Shield South Australia (Mid-Late Twentieth Century)
Natural earth pigments on bark and carved wood, 62 cm high
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A Carved Pearl Shell with Hair Belt Western Australia (Mid Twentieth Century)
Pearl shell and human hair, 50 cm high
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A Group of Ceremonial Feathered Adornments, Aurukun Region, Far North Queensland
Hair string, wool, twigs, resin, natural earth pigments, and feathers, 126 cm; 53 cm; 39 cm; 24cm
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An Early and Fine Ceremonial Club Bathurst or Melville Island, Northern Territory (Early Twentieth Century)
Natural earth pigments on carved ironwood, 77 cm high
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Five Carved Pearl Shells (Riji Jakoli), Western Australia (circa 1950s)
Carved pearl shell and natural earth pigments, 18 cm; 11.5 cm; 14.5 cm; 10.5 cm; 17 cm
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Five Carved Pearl Shells (Riji Jakoli) Western Australia (Early - Mid Twentieth Century)
Human hair string and natural earth pigments on carved pearl shell, 19 cm; 20 cm; 19 cm; 20.5 cm; 15.5 cm
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Six Carved Pearl Shells (Riji Jakoli), Western Australia (Early - Mid Twentieth Century)
Natural earth pigments on carved pearl shell, 20.5 cm; 19 cm; 17.5 cm; 18.5 cm; 19.5 c
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A Shield Lumi Area, Papua New Guinea (Mid Twentieth Century)
Carved wood and natural bush fibres, 108 cm high
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An Old Carved Tribal Bowl Papua New Guinea (Mid Twentieth Century)
Carved wood and resin, 59 cm long
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A Ceremonial Headdress Mornington Island, Queensland (Late Twentieth Century)
Cane binding, bark, human hair string and natural earth pigments, 60 cm high
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A Ceremonial Dance Wand Bathurst or Melville Islands (Circa 1960)
Natural earth pigments on carved ironwood, 117 cm high
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A Ceremonial Dance Club, Bathurst or Melville Island, Northern Territory (Mid Twentieth Century)
Natural earth pigments on carved ironwood, 50 cm high
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A Transitional Broad Shield South East Australia (Early-Mid Twentieth Century)
Pigments on carved hardwood, 77 cm high
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A Carved Shield Western Australia (Early-Mid Twentieth Century)
Natural earth pigments on carved hardwood, length 77 cm
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Two Large and Early Tutini, Thurst or Melville Island, (Mid Twentieth Century)
Ironwood and natural pigments, 226.5 cm; 247 cm high
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A Painted Dilly Bag Northern Territory (Mid Twentieth Century)
Woven pandanus fibre, 34 cm high
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An Early and Exceptional Painted Dilly Bag Northern Territory (Early Twentieth Century)
Woven pandanus fibre and bush string, 24 cm high
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Two Dilly Bags, Northern Territory (1960)
Bush string and feathers, 85 cm; 80 cm
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Two Woven and Feathered Baskets, Northern Territory
Pandanus fibres and feathers, 40cm; 37cm diameter
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Six Carved Message Sticks Western and Central Australia (Early Twentieth Century)
Carved wood and natural earth pigments, 43 cm; 58.5 cm; 46 cm; 42 cm; 51 cm; 43 cm
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A Fine and Early Painted Dilly Bag Northern Territory
Woven pandanus fibre and bush string, 26 cm high
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An Early Ceremonial Throwing Club Bathurst or Melville Island, Northern Territory (Early Twentieth Century)
Natural earth pigments on carved ironwood, 67 cm high
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A Forked Ceremonial Club,bathurst or Melville Island, Northern Territory
Natural earth pigments on carved ironwood, 51 cm high
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Painted Seed Carrier/Coolamon Yuendumu, 1999
Acrylic on carved bean-wood, 49 x 23 cm
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