Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers, Australian Aboriginal and Oceanic Art , Sydney, 12 Jun 2012

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Lot No.		Hammer	Price incl. Premium
1	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Aboriginal Stone Axe with Wooden Handle, Decorated With Ochre and Spinifex Resin Carved wood, height 33 cm	***	***
2	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Three Aboriginal Items Including Two Woomeras Carved wood Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
3	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Bull Roarer, Arnhem Land Ochres on wood and bush twine, height 47 cm	***	***
4	Ashby, Frank Mimi Spirit Owl 1986 Ochres on wood, height 54 cm	***	***
5	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Boomerang, Framed Carved wood, length 60 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
6	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Three Boomerangs Carved wood Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
7	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Two Boomerangs Carved wood, each 70 cm	***	***
8	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Three Early NSW Boomerangs Carved wood, 62 cm; 70 cm; 77 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
9	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, A Northern South Australian Boomerang Carved wood, height 116 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
10	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Six Wooden and Stone Aboriginal Artefacts Carved wood and stone Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
11	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Collection of Aboriginal Artefacts Carved wood Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
12	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Nogirri Country: Wondawuy Dhabarr Lorrken Burial Pole Decorated with Snake Motifs 2000 Earth pigments with cross hatch design on timber, painted Country Gallery Catalogue no. PC01/Yirro10013, height. 65 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
13	Wainburranga, Paddy Fordham Lorrkon (Hollow Log) Decorated with Turtles and Goannas Carved wood, 109 x 87 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
14	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Five Aboriginal Spears Pitantitjari - Indulkina SA 1989 Carved wood Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
15	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Four Tiwi Pukamani Spears (Bathurst and Melville Islands, Northern Territory) Carved wood, height 200 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
16	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Two Traditional Pandanus Collecting Bags with String Handles Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
17	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Old Paddle, Believed to Be of Australian Aboriginal Manufacture Carved wood, height 124 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
18	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, An Aboriginal Paddle Club Carved wood, decorated with faded ochres, height 82 cm	***	***
19	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Four Central Australian Coolamons Carved wood Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
20	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, A Central Desert Beanwood Shield Carved wood, height 65 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
21	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Rainforest Shield, Far North Queensland Carved wood Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
22	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Tiwi Islands Bird Figure 1992 Earth pigments on ironwood, height 138 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
23	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Lorrken Burial Pole Decorated with Snake Motif 2000 Earth pigments on timber, height 99 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
24	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, North East Arnhemland Lorrken Burial Pole Decorated with Large Bird Motifs 2000 Earth pigments on timber, height 193 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
25	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, North East Arnhemland Lorrken Burial Pole Decorated with Kangaroo, Fish & Bird Motifs, 2000 Earth pigments on timber, height 177 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
26	Angunguna, Jimmy Wangara Spirit 1992 Earth pigments on timber, height 148 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
27	Ngalabiya, Michael Warrabunbun, Spirit Carving 1988 Earth pigments on timber, some damage to base and head, height 141 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
28	Angunguna, Jimmy Wangara Spirit 1988 Earth pigments on timber, height 160 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
29	Angunguna, Jimmy Wangara Spirit 1992 Earth pigments on timber, height 166 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
30	Puantulura, Carmelina Imalu Ancestral (Female) Spirit Figure 1999 Earth pigments on ironwood, height 103 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
31	Angunguna, Jimmy Wangara Spirit 1990 Earth pigments on timber, height 165 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
32	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Lorrken Burial Pole Decorated with Animal Motif Cross Hatched 2000 Earth pigments on timber, height 136 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
33	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Tiwi Islands Pukami Pole 2002 Earth pigment on iron wood, height 135 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
34	Wainburranga, Paddy Fordham Lorrken Burial Pole Decorated with Black Cockatoo and Two Goanna Motifs 2000 Earth pigments on timber, height 146 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
35	Puantulura, Carmelina Tiwi Islands Tall Figure 1999 Earth pigments, coconut husk and paperbark on ironwood, height 159 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
36	Fisher, J. B Djalumbu Burial Pole Decorated with Animal Motifs 2000 Earth pigments on timber, height 196 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
37	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Tiwi Islands Male Figure 1989 Earth pigments on ironwood, height 192 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
38	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Tiwi Islands Pukami Pole 1989 Earth pigments on ironwood, height 185 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
39	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Tiwi Islands Forked Pukami Pole 1989 Earth pigments on ironwood, height 182 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
40	Angunguna, Jimmy Wangara Spirit 1999 Earth pigments on timber, height 264 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
41	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Melville Island Tiwi Head Totem 1989 Earth pigments on ironwood, height 100 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
42	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Tiwi Islands Figure Totem 1992 Earth pigments on ironwood, height 105 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
43	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Toten Figure 1988 Earth pigments and hair on milkwood, height 128 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
44	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Forked Pukamani Pole 1989 Earth pigments on ironwood, height 116 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
45	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Tiwi Islands Forked Pukamani Pole 1989 Earth pigments on ironwood, height 170 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
46	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Lorrken Burial Pole Decorated with Black & White Goanna Motifs 1989 Earth pigments on timber, height 167 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
47	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, Yirrkala Lorrken Burial Pole White Goannas & Snake Motifs 2001 Earth pigments on timber, height 175 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
48	Angunguna, Jimmy Wangara Spirit 1999 Earth pigments on timber, height 264 cm Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
49	Aboriginal Artist Unknown, An Aboriginal Painted & Carved Pukamani Pole Carved wood Search for Matching Provenance	***	***
50	Munduwalawala, Ginger Riley Ngak Ngak Silkscreen, signed lower right 25/60, 66 x 50 cm	***	***

Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers, Australian Aboriginal and Oceanic Art , Sydney, 12 Jun 2012, No. of Lots: 218

Aboriginal Stone Axe with Wooden Handle, Decorated With Ochre and Spinifex Resin

Three Aboriginal Items Including Two Woomeras

Bull Roarer, Arnhem Land

Mimi Spirit Owl 1986

Boomerang, Framed

Three Boomerangs

Two Boomerangs

Three Early NSW Boomerangs

A Northern South Australian Boomerang

Six Wooden and Stone Aboriginal Artefacts

Collection of Aboriginal Artefacts

Nogirri Country: Wondawuy Dhabarr Lorrken Burial Pole Decorated with Snake Motifs 2000

Lorrkon (Hollow Log) Decorated with Turtles and Goannas

Five Aboriginal Spears Pitantitjari - Indulkina SA 1989

Four Tiwi Pukamani Spears (Bathurst and Melville Islands, Northern Territory)

Two Traditional Pandanus Collecting Bags with String Handles

Old Paddle, Believed to Be of Australian Aboriginal Manufacture

An Aboriginal Paddle Club

Four Central Australian Coolamons

A Central Desert Beanwood Shield

Rainforest Shield, Far North Queensland

Tiwi Islands Bird Figure 1992

Lorrken Burial Pole Decorated with Snake Motif 2000

North East Arnhemland Lorrken Burial Pole Decorated with Large Bird Motifs 2000

North East Arnhemland Lorrken Burial Pole Decorated with Kangaroo, Fish & Bird Motifs, 2000

Wangara Spirit 1992

Warrabunbun, Spirit Carving 1988

Wangara Spirit 1988

Wangara Spirit 1992

Imalu Ancestral (Female) Spirit Figure 1999

Wangara Spirit 1990

Lorrken Burial Pole Decorated with Animal Motif Cross Hatched 2000

Tiwi Islands Pukami Pole 2002

Lorrken Burial Pole Decorated with Black Cockatoo and Two Goanna Motifs 2000

Tiwi Islands Tall Figure 1999

Djalumbu Burial Pole Decorated with Animal Motifs 2000

Tiwi Islands Male Figure 1989

Tiwi Islands Pukami Pole 1989

Tiwi Islands Forked Pukami Pole 1989

Wangara Spirit 1999

Melville Island Tiwi Head Totem 1989

Tiwi Islands Figure Totem 1992

Toten Figure 1988

Forked Pukamani Pole 1989

Tiwi Islands Forked Pukamani Pole 1989

Lorrken Burial Pole Decorated with Black & White Goanna Motifs 1989

Yirrkala Lorrken Burial Pole White Goannas & Snake Motifs 2001

Wangara Spirit 1999

An Aboriginal Painted & Carved Pukamani Pole

Ngak Ngak

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