CENTRAL AUSTRALIA

Beyond Sacred: Aboriginal Art, The Laverty Collection
Sydney
8 March 2015
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A BOOMERANG AND DIGGING STICK

19th century
CENTRAL AUSTRALIA

carved and shaped hardwood, both with finely incised designs, the digging stick handle incised with cross-hatched designs and with traces of resin

82.5 cm and 68.0 cm length

Estimate: 
$1,000 - 1,500 (2)
Sold for $5,400 (inc. BP) in Auction 38 - 8 March 2015, Sydney
Provenance

(i) Sotheby's, Sydney, 4 December 1994, lot 565 (part)
(ii) Sotheby's, Sydney, 4 December 1994, lot 385 (part)
The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Sydney