A SPEARTHROWER

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
14 October 2009
231

Artefacts and Carvings

Western Australia
A SPEARTHROWER

of elongated leaf like form, tapering to a knob handle at the base encrusted with spinifex resin, the wooden peg attached at the top with sinew, the front decorated with traditional linear designs, the reverse with rough adze makings, old patina

64.0 cm length

Estimate: 
$1,100 - 1,300
Provenance

Private collection, Melbourne