Six aboriginal throwing clubs "nulla-nulla" or "waddy" · Australia · ID: 3051266
Description
heavy Australian hardwood,
a) club, Queensland, fluted corpus, roughened grip zone, old label with inventory no. “33540”, l: 62 cm
b) club, Queensland, grooved beating area, fluted corpus, roughened grip zone, old label with inventory no. “34631”, l: 64 cm
c) club with old collection label “Bj 44403 SW/.”, l: 84 cm
comes with: three further clubs of various shapes, l: 66 cm - 71 cm, rich age patina
Lumholtz (1889) recorded that these clubs were used to kill small animals from a distance of about ten to twelve yards. The handle end was also used to dig up roots, eggs, rats and bandicoots.
The object Six aboriginal throwing clubs “nulla-nulla” or “waddy” with the object ID 3051266 was last part of the auction Auction 103 at November 16, 2024 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 350 achieved a sales price of EUR 800.
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Comparing literature
Davies, Susan M., Collected - 150 Years of Aboriginal Art and Artifacts at the Macleay Museum, Sydney 2002, p. 78, pl. 91