Y A LARGE MĀORI WHALE BONE HAIR COMB OR HERU PARĀOA POSSIBLY LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY With eight tines (1 half complete), openwork manaia, 32.5cm long, 10cm high, 20th century inscribed paper label "Brought by *** Alfred Abraham Wade Lea from New Zealand in 1861 Dunedin Otago" An Aboriginal hardwood boomerang, 19th century, carved "rat tooth" decoration of flowerheads, a tree and a sinuous figure with diamond shaped head, snake by his side, stylised river above, plain back, one end pointed, the other lacking, traces of clay, 70cm long, 5.5cm at the widest pointTwo sections of Aboriginal netting, Queensland late 19th century, both with contemporary handwritten labels dated 1893 and inscribed respectively "Piece of fishing net used by the aboriginals of Queensland made from the bark of the Arrajong Tree. The bark is chewed by the *** and pulled out into threads, rolled together and then after being made into string made into the net. June 1893" and "Piece of net made from the sinews of the emu and kangaroo by the aboriginals of Queensland, June 1893", both balled up and tied with string
Y A LARGE MĀORI WHALE BONE HAIR COMB OR HERU PARĀOA POSSIBLY LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY With eight tines (1 half complete), openwork manaia, 32.5cm long, 10cm high, 20th century inscribed paper label "Brought by *** Alfred Abraham Wade Lea from New Zealand in 1861 Dunedin Otago" An Aboriginal hardwood boomerang, 19th century, carved "rat tooth" decoration of flowerheads, a tree and a sinuous figure with diamond shaped head, snake by his side, stylised river above, plain back, one end pointed, the other lacking, traces of clay, 70cm long, 5.5cm at the widest pointTwo sections of Aboriginal netting, Queensland late 19th century, both with contemporary handwritten labels dated 1893 and inscribed respectively "Piece of fishing net used by the aboriginals of Queensland made from the bark of the Arrajong Tree. The bark is chewed by the *** and pulled out into threads, rolled together and then after being made into string made into the net. June 1893" and "Piece of net made from the sinews of the emu and kangaroo by the aboriginals of Queensland, June 1893", both balled up and tied with string
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