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Lot 234

THREE FINE BOOMERANGS South-East Queensland, 19th century carved hardwood, the large hunting boomerang incised with totemic designs and bearing a dark patina; natural striations within fighting boomerang are offset by glossy patina

Estimate $2,000 - $3,000


Michael Graham Stewart, London
Leicester Galleries, London
Private collection, N.S.W. 70cm; 51cm; 50.5cm (length)


For a closely related example of the Hunting Boomerang and Fighting Boomerang (50.5cm) see Phillip Jones, Boomerang; Behind an Australian Icon, Wakefield Press, SA, 1996, p. 28, cat. no. A5588 and A5615, and p. 47, cat. no. A34200 (illus.)

Fine Art

AUCTION
Sale: LJ8020
6:30pm - 24 March 2015
333 Malvern Rd, South Yarra 3141

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Olivia Fuller
olivia.fuller@leonardjoel.com.au

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