Up from a recent estate in Honolulu Hawaii this 1960s century Australian Aboriginal Desert shield. Engraved unpainted early made for trade example. The item was inspected and appraised by Arthur Beau Palmer AD Fine Art (QCA) President Emeritus Royal Queensland Art Society (Hon) 2004 - 2006, Lord Mayor's Arts and Cultural Advisory Committee (Hon) Past President BBC Old Collegians Assoc.(Hon), Uni of Qld Animal Experimentation Ethics Committee (Hon) Senior Consultant Year of the Outback 2002 (Specialist Aboriginal, Art, Aviation) Approved to value the following classes for the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Programme: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander material culture and contemporary art, Arnhem Land Aboriginal Bark Paintings (19thC to present), Aboriginal Hermannsburg watercolors (1930s to present), Pacific (Melanesian Papua New Guinea, Solomons & Islands, Polynesia & Micronesia), African, Asian, Native American Indian material culture, Australian Early and Modern Fine Art, International Aviation Art, Trench Art WWI & WWII. Consultant Investment Fine and Tribal Art Approved Registered Valuer (Commonwealth AVO and Queensland Public Trustee) Appraisal, Provenance, Research, Insurance, Bequests, Auctions Aboriginal, Pacific, Asian and African Art/Artifacts International Aviation and Australian Fine Art.
Measurements:
25.75 inches long x 4.25 inches wide x 1.12lb
Condition:
one end on the handle side has 3 inch long area which shows a crack or better a thin line where the surface is disturbed (but not soft or anything) and the other end same side has half way between tip and handle a 1/34 inch long indenture
