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A 19th Century Australian Aboriginal Woomera (Spear Thrower), slightly convex on one side, the handle incised with a geometric motif, with compressed globular pommel, lacks thorn spike, 63cm; a 19th Century Australian Aboriginal Boomerang, with adzed decoration and of a rich brown patination, 50cm; a Shillelagh, the cleft head carved with a fern leaf, 59cm (3)
A 19th Century Australian Aboriginal War Club, with pointed ovoid head and tapering haft with scale carved pointed butt, 69.5cm; a Songye Axe, the small triangular iron blade with tang inserted through the swollen head of the wood haft, 66cm; an African Wood Comb, with figural handle, 36cm; a Wood Stirrup, with flute carved decoration (4)
Two 19th Century Australian Aboriginal Clubs, each with pointed ovoid head and tapering haft with pointed butt, of dark rich brown colour, one with lighter grained head and textured carved decoration to the butt, 68cm and 75cm possibly South Eastern Australia **See Petty No.78 for this type of club1 - Fine splits to head 2 - Deep crack running from head down haft for 22cm, with further smaller cracks
Postcards in album - including real photographic social history, Boots Cash Chemist's shop front and vehicle with staff, street parade with crowds 1911, 1914 / 1915 German military horse and carriages and mounted personnel, other military street scenes, Frank Jones Draper, Morton, shop front, staff and horse-drawn wagon, hunting Hatching Green Meet, Rudwinter School group, 1939 Australian Aboriginal and totem pole, also early cards undivided backs, coloured and black and white vignettes, greets, shipping, race horses and jockeys, etc (qty)
Tribal Art: an Australian Aboriginal boomerang, the face incised with linear decoration and crosses, presumably 19th century, l. 74 cm CONDITION REPORT: Signs of wear, one large nick to edge and losses to each corner.We use Mailboxes Etc for all our packing enquiries. You can contact them directly for a quote on 01234 305 544 or email info@mbebedford.co.uk Item is being re-offered in our December sale due to the previous buyer failing to pay with our terms and conditions. The vendor of this lot has requested it be re-offered.
19th century Australian Aboriginal carved boomerang, 76cm long.Provenance: Offered together with an old handwritten label: 'Aboriginal's Boomerang, good old time fellow Came from Aborigines camp at Boolabalah (?) Station, near Cobar. Red Tank Jack, the black teacher gave me this. Nulla Nulla what the black fellow hits is gin on the head with'
Rare 19th century Aboriginal brass breastplate or King plate of crescent form, hung with brass chain and engraved - 'King Taptalla II', with kangaroo, ostrich and leaf ornament, 14.5cm wide.Provenance: They were given by White Colonial Authorities to recognise local Aboriginal leaders. This lot is accompanied by old handwritten label: 'Aboriginal King's brass plate (1820) King Taptalla II, King of the Terrara Tribe, Shoalhaven River, New South Wales'
20th century AD. A wooden figure of a bird with black painted head with brown and white for the eyes; notch to the top for insertion of separate beak, feather to the back of the head; long body painted with stripes and dots to the upper side in ochre, black and white, to the lower black and white stripes, to the end of the body a triangular section with dot pattern; large wings back against the body decorated to the outside with ochre, black and white stripes with dot pattern, to the inside ovals against a dark ochre background with ochre, black and white circles and dot patterns to the centre. See Jelinek, J. The Great Art of the Early Australians: The Study of the Evolution and Role of Rock Art in the Society of Australian Hunters and Gatherers, Brno, 1989. Isaacs, J. Tiwi, Melbourne, 2012. 1.47 kg, 41.5cm (16 1/4"). Property of a European collector; formerly from the collection of Prof. RNDr. Jan Jelínek, DrSc., anthropologist, and Director of the Moravian museum, and the president of the International Committee of Museums (ICOM) for eight years; thence by descent 2004; collected by Professor Jelínek during the Moravian Museum expedition collaboration with Department of Aboriginal studies in Canberra, to Arhnem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia, in 1969; from Tiwi Island, Australia. Accompanied by copies of expedition photographs, map and Dr Jelinek's biography. The Tiwi Islands are eighty kilometres north of Darwin, where the Arafura and Timor Seas meet. They are comprised of Melville and Bathurst Islands and are Australia’s second and fifth largest islands respectively. Contemporary Tiwi artists draw on the elaborate decoration of traditional ceremonies, including painting patterns on the body, carving and decorating ceremonial hollow log funeral poles, the creation of elaborate head-dresses and other body adornments, weaving and printmaking borne from the tradition of ceremonial Pukamani poles. Tiwi art differs from that of the people of nearby Arnhem Land in its vibrant colour and emphasis on pattern. [A video of this lot is available on the TimeLine Auctions website] Very fine condition. Rare.
Two Australian Aboriginal boomerangs, early 20th CenturyThe first 44cm wide boomerang with paper label with ink inscription 'Aboriginal returning boomerang used hunting New South Wales', the second boomerang 45.5cm wide (2) (af). CONDITION REPORT: Darker one: 2 holes, some loss to edges, label hard to readLighter one: chips to edges, repairs to broken off section with glue

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