6 Jun 2005
13:00 PDT
San Francisco
Native American, Pre-Columbian & Tribal Art
Back to auction 13100
Native American, Pre-Columbian & Tribal Art
Back to auction 13100
Property of various owners
An Aboriginal wood churinga
Central Australia, the lengthy wood implement of ovoid form, mostly flat on one side and slightly domed on the reverse, worked in an allover pattern on both sides of complementary diamonds, concentric circles and irregular forms, all created through grooved patterning and dotted bands, an ochre wash throughout.
length 56 1/4in
See illustration
length 56 1/4in
See illustration
Sold for
US$ 2,643
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Collected in the 1930s at Hermannsberg Mission, near Alice Springs.
Category: Ethnographic Art / Native American
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