Messenger stick, before 1931
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87th Tribal Art AuctionMessenger stick, before 1931
Australia, Northern Territory
Provenance | Size | Starting price / estimated price |
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Old British Collection | L: 14 inch | This object is not available anymore. |
wood, light brown patina, delicate round staff carved with signs and symbols (by incised lines lengthwise subdivided in two halves, each with triangular patterns that are tooth-like meshed), traces of old age.
According to enclosed file card: "Rain stick ("him singer rain") bought from Frankie, a fullblooded aboriginal, at Birdum, Northern Territory, Australia, Jan 1931".