Bouclier "wunda", Propulseur "woomera" et boomerang · Australie · 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.
L’objet Bouclier “wunda”, Propulseur “woomera” et boomerang numéro d’objet 3052305, a fait partie de la Vente aux enchères 105 du 15 novembre 2025. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 188 a atteint un prix de vente de 1 700 € pour un prix d’adjudication de 800 €.
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Littérature comparée
Jones, Philip, Boomerang, Kent Town 1996, p. 90, ill. on top