A PAIR OF RANNGA (MORNING STAR) POSTS

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
14 October 2009
179

Artist Unknown

North East Arnhem Land
A PAIR OF RANNGA (MORNING STAR) POSTS

natural earth pigments, feathers and string on carved softwood

132.0 cm and 101.0 cm heights

Estimate: 
$3,800 - 4,500 (2)
Provenance

Collected by Valentine Smith who was employed as a marine engineer with John Burke Shipping in the late 1950s. Smith worked on the vessels called Ellysana and Waiben, supplying far north Queensland, Gulf areas and Thursday Island Private collection, Melbourne