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An Unusual East Coast Australian Mulga Wood Scimitar, with broad slightly curved blade, the flattened rounded rectangular grip with incised decoration, 65cm long.
Guide Price: £250-300
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A South Sea Islands Wood Hand Club, with spear head shaped head, on a knopped grip with cylindrical pommel, 43cm; a Similar Hand Club, with rounded spear shaped head and globular pommel, 39cm; a Fly Whisk, of horse hair with rope bound grip. (3)
Guide Price: £70-90
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A Central Australian Throwing Stick, of heavy rounded sinuous form, 51cm; two Smaller Throwing Sticks, of pointed cylindrical form (3)
Guide Price: £100-150
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A 19th Century Australian Boomerang, carved with three concentric square panels, 44cm; two other Boomerangs, decorated with kangaroos and ostriches (3)
Guide Price: £90-120
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A Zulu Knobkerrie, with small ovoid head, the long tapering haft bound with plaited brass wire; two Wood Millet Pounders, each of elongated spool shape (3)
Guide Price: £70-100
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A Dyak Head Hunter's Sword (Mandau), the 48cm steel blade engraved with star motifs to the ricasso, the shaped tip with fancy sawback edge, the bone hilt with plaited rattan bound grip, the hooked pommel pierced and carved with stylised tusks and tendrils, hair tufts missing, the two piece wood scabbard carved with stylised tusks, fins and faces, and bearing traces of coloured tufts of hair.
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A Fijian Ula (Throwing Club), with large bulbous head, the tapering cylindrical haft inlaid with star and stylised bird motifs in ivory (possibly whale tooth), the grip carved with bands of arrow pont motifs, 43.5cm long.
Guide Price: £800-1200
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A Western Australian Aborigine Wood Parrying Shield, of rounded oblong form, with linear feather band carved decoration and central slightly raised grip, one end inscribed in ink "Mandora Station, Port Headland, W.A.", 72cm by 11cm.
Guide Price: £600-700
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A South-Eastern Australian Aborigine Heavy Hardwood Club, with ovoid head and tapering cylindrical haft terminating in a point, 75cm long.**See Petty, "The Art Of Eastern Australia", p.78, for an almost identical example.
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A South-Eastern Australian Aborigine Figured Hardwood Parrying Stick, of thick cylindrical form with flattened head carved to a point, the scratch decorated grip terminating in a slender ovoid butt, 78cm long.**See Petty, "The Art of Eastern Australia", p.121, for a similar example.
Guide Price: £150-200
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