late 19th, early 20th Century

Important Aboriginal Art
Melbourne
25 March 2009
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A CARVED AND DECORATED BARDI PARRYING SHIELD (DAMPIER PENINSULA, KIMBERLEY REGION)

late 19th, early 20th Century

the front decorated with alternating bands of diagonal designs filled with natural earth pigments, the reverse replete with adze markings and decorated with alternating horizontal bands of white red and black pigments, deep cut lug handle

77.0 cm length

Estimate: 
$4,000 - 6,000