A SPEARTHROWER, KING GEORGE SOUND, SOUTH WEST AUSTRALIA,

carved in hardwood of leaf-shaped form and plano-convex section, wooden tip attached with resin and handle at base constructed of resin infused with vegetable matter

Private collection, Perth

In very good condition. A small nick to the top right hand edge, cracks in the spinifex resin at the top, has old collection number 367 painted near the handle.
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Cf. Davies, S., Collected 150 years of Aboriginal Art and Artefacts at the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, 2002, p.58 for another example.