The cricket memorabilia collection of Australian fast bowler Alan Davidson will include his baggy green cap estimated at Aus$8000 and bat guided at Aus$400.
The sale also offers a collection of tribal artefacts from Papua New Guinea assembled by Queenslander Ottmar Meier, who lived and worked in the Territory of Papua New Guinea from 1948-80.
It will include this garamut or slit drum from the Western Sepik region, which was acquired in the 1950s and has an estimate of Aus$800.
It is carved from a single piece of wood with incised decoration and a pig’s head to either end and comes with the accompanying carved timber pedestal and beating stick.
Garamuts were used for inter-village and more distant communications, meetings, to issue warnings and for male initiations, and were kept in the men’s ritual house.
