A BROAD SHIELD

Important Fine Art + Aboriginal Art
Sydney
2 December 2015
77

(Darling River, New South Wales), 19th century

A BROAD SHIELD

carved and incised hardwood in-filled with natural pigments with attached handle

92.0 cm length

Estimate: 
$35,000 – 45,000
Sold for $67,100 (inc. BP) in Auction 41 - 2 December 2015, Sydney
Provenance

Executed in the Darling River Region of New South Wales in the late nineteenth century
Collection of Patrick Skehan (1861-1943), Kilmore, Victoria, acquired in the early 1900s
Thence by descent
Private collection