Three Australian Aborigine weapons
A large West Australian spear thrower, the wood hook secured with resin and fibre binding, the front incised with a hatched and zig-zag design with cube motifs towards the tapering handle, 86cm.; a Western Desert/Central Australian pole club with fine linear striations the grip incised with a zig-zag pattern 70cm. and a boomerang incised with emus, 65cm.
Sold for
£300
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Acquired by the vendor's grandmother Anne Rigby in Australia in the 1930s
Category: Ethnographic Art / Tribal
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