Tribal Art & Antiquities - 21st February 2018
Lot 685
An Aboriginal narrow shield New South Wales
Estimate £6,000 - £8,000 | Hammer £15500
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Description
An Aboriginal narrow shield
New South Wales, Australia
wood, with possum tooth relief carved wavy linear decoration with a line of lozenges with red ochre and with diaper filled lozenges, with a solid cut handle, 19th century,
82cm long.
Provenance
Arthur Allen, 1874 - 1967 and thence by descent.
cf. The David Petty collection, The Art of Eastern Australia, 2009, p..14-15 for a similar shield.