Shield "wunda", spear thrower "woomera" and boomerang · Australia · ID: 3052305
Bernhard Graf von Lippe, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
Description
wood, pigments,
a) shield “wunda”, red and yellow ochre, h: 78 cm
b) spear thrower “woomera”, wooden spike, fixed with spinifex resin and fine grass fibre binding, h: 58 cm
c) unusual boomerang type in hook design, coastal Western Australia, rest., l: 60 cm
According to records of the Western Australian Museum, Carlshausen arrived in Australia in 1899 aboard the “Reichspostdampfer Prinzregent Luitpold”. He was a hotelier in Bayswater (1901) and Fremantle (1904), ran a pig farm in Jandakot from 1908 and later settled as a farmer in Wubin. He died in Dalwallinu in 1942. A street in Atwell is named after him.
Carlshausen acquired objects belonging to the Australian indigenous people or received them as gifts and brought them to Germany, where they were stored in the Carlshausen mansion in Altenhaßlau.
Comparing literature
Jones, Philip, Boomerang, Kent Town 1996, p. 90, ill. on top