Howitt's Boomerangs: 19th Century Australian Artifacts

Two boomerangs from the private collection of renowned explorer…
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Two boomerangs from the private collection of renowned explorer & anthropologist Alfred Howitt. Western New South Wales (74 cm) & South Eastern Australian (45 cm) origins, 19th century. Howitt was appointed leader of the Victorian Relief Expedition in search of the ill fated Burke & Wills party where he discovered King the only survivor. He returned a year later to retrieve their bodies that he had buried on his first trip to the Cooper creek. Howitt had an esteemed career from geologist to Gold Warden in Northern Gippsland to Secretary of Mines Department. Provenance: Direct family descent

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  • Victorian Period - The Victorian period of furniture and decorative arts design covers the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers used and modified many historical styles such as Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others, although use of some styles, such as English Rococo and Gothic tended to dominate the furniture manufacture of the period.

    The Victorian period was preceded by the Regency and William IV periods, and followed by the Edwardian period, named for Edward VII (1841 ? 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910.

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