A SPEARTHROWER

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
14 October 2009
230

Artefacts and Carvings

Western Australia, 19th century
A SPEARTHROWER

of leaf like form, tapering to a knob handle at the base encrusted with spinifex resin, a wooden peg attached at the top with spinifex resin and sinew, the front decorated with linear zig-zag design and indentations, the reverse with adze makings, old repair to the top and old patina

73.0 cm length

Estimate: 
$3,500 - 4,500
Provenance

Collected in the 1890s
Private collection, Melbourne