Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Day One - 17 Sep 2025
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An Aboriginal shield
An Aboriginal shield
Lagrange Bay, Kimberley, Australia
with carved zig-zag grooves to the front with red pigment, the back with four rows of carved vertical grooves and red pigment to the plain rows and the integral handle, inscribed LAGRANGE BAY KIMBERLEY FORMERLY HARDWEL,
73.5cm long.
Provenance
Dr Leonard Adam Private Collection (1891 - 1960) Anthropologist and lawyer.