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LOT 1747
Aboriginal Boomerang Pair
CIRCA 19TH CENTURY A.D.
30 - 30 3/4 in. (791 grams total, 76-78 cm).
Two wooden boomerangs, asymmetrical in form and with a flat underside, one carved with diagonally banded hatching and the other with longitudinal ridges; each with one narrow end and one curved and broader with a rounded tip. [2]
ProvenanceFrom an old private collection.
Acquired from Newark antiques market.
See Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, A., The Evolution of Culture and Other Essays, Oxford, 1906, plate XV, item 16, for type.
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Two wooden boomerangs, asymmetrical in form and with a flat underside, one carved with diagonally banded hatching and the other with longitudinal ridges; each with one narrow end and one curved and broader with a rounded tip. 791 grams total, 76-78 cm
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