SOUTH WEST QUEENSLAND, early 1900s

Important Aboriginal Works of Art
Melbourne
25 May 2016
50

A GULMARI SHIELD

SOUTH WEST QUEENSLAND, early 1900s

carved and shaped hardwood with geometric designs infilled with natural earth pigments, the reverse with a deep cut lug handle

57.0 cm length

bears incised inscription verso: A.W. BARR

Estimate: 
$4,000 – 6,000
Sold for $5,124 (inc. BP) in Auction 43 - 25 May 2016, Melbourne
Provenance

Collected in the early 1900‘s by George Kerr a farmer working in Rockhampton, Queensland
Thence by descent
Private collection, Queensland