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Goanna

$250.00

Year Circa 1950s. Burnt wire work design on hardwood 52.5cm

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Description

The use of hot wire to make designs on animals and artefacts extended across Australia from La Perouse in NSW through to SA, the NT and WA. The state boundaries as we know them today bear no relation to the Country boundaries of the Aboriginal Peoples so attribution of language group and state is often difficult.

Central desert groups may have covered the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia in their seasonal travels and Western Desert groups South Australia and Western Australia.

This goanna is well decorated in traditional designs which may also be found in Central
and Western desert paintings.