LOT #88 LOT #87 Artist Once Known A Leangle - Sickle Club, c. mid to late 19th century Height: 58 cm carved hardwood $1,200 - 2,000 PROVENANCE Field Collected, 1900s Private Collation, Vic
Artist Once Known Two Fighting Clubs, North East Queensland, c.1900 Height: 62 and 71.5 cm carved in hardwood $2,500 - 3,500 PROVENANCE Field Collected, Qld Private collection, Vic
of classic hook shape with incised cross hatched design and nipple ended handle. Shiny old patina.
A bulbous headed club, its entire surface replete with fine striated fluting.and and Pineapple-headed club. Both of circular section with tapering shafts, roughly pecked at handle to form grip and dark glossy patina.
For a similar example see Deutscher & Hackett, Important Australian International and Aboriginal art, Melbourne November 2014 Lot No. 98
For similar examples from the Robert Stewart of Southwick collection sold through Christies, Paris in 2007 and Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, November 2008, Lot No. 34