Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 19 Feb 2025
An Aboriginal shovel
An Aboriginal shovel
Australia
with a leaf shape blade having a cut out section to one side, possibly later to be used as a club, with a flattened handle having a knop terminal,
109cm long.
cf. James Edge-Partington. Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands, 1996, p.354. no.s 17 and 18.