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Lot 128 Dα

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Auction 1241 - overview Brussels
31.01.2024, 14:00 - Art of Africa, the Pacific and the Americas
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 1.260 € (incl. premium)

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Admiralty Islands

31 cm. long

Provenance

Collected in the late 19th century by Reverend Isaac Rooney (1843-1931)
Arthur Palmer, Brisbane

Isaac Rooney migrated to Australia from County Tyrone aged six with his parents and they settled in Melbourne. He trained for the ministry at Horton College, Tasmania, and in 1865 was sent to be a missionary in Fiji. He spent fifteen years in Fiji, and eight in the Bismarck Archipelago. He returned to Australia in 1889.