An Aboriginal wunda shield

£300 - £500

£610

An Aboriginal wunda shield
Western Australia
with carved grooved decoration, the back with a radiating design under the intergral handle, with red and white pigment to the front and red to the back, the handle inscribed in white 48, RV Blakenson coll and the back in pencil WA 1908 RH,
80.5cm long.

Provenance
Dr Leonard Adam Private Collection (1891 - 1960) Anthropologist and lawyer.