A PAIR OF SMALL RAINFOREST SHIELDS

Important Aboriginal Works of Art
Melbourne
25 May 2016
51

QUEENSLAND, c.1940

A PAIR OF SMALL RAINFOREST SHIELDS

decorated with traditional designs painted in orange, yellow, white and black natural earth pigments

47.0 and 54.0 cm length

Estimate: 
$4,000 – 6,000 (2)
Sold for $4,270 (inc. BP) in Auction 43 - 25 May 2016, Melbourne
Provenance

Collected in North East Arnhem Land by the vendor’s father in the early 1960s
Thence by descent
Private collection, Melbourne