A PAIR OF SMALL SPEARTHROWERS

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
14 October 2009
224

Artefacts and Carvings

19th century
A PAIR OF SMALL SPEARTHROWERS

both of elegant leaf like form, the first with resin handle and peg attached by sinew and spinifex resin, the second missing peg and old repair to body, both with old shiny patina

51.0 cm and 52.5 cm lengths

Estimate: 
$3,000 - 4,000 (2)
Provenance

MB Abram Galleries, Santa Monica, United States of America
Private collection, Queensland