Australian Aboriginal Wooden Clapsticks with Pyrographed Decoration - A Pair wax candle body and tail feathers

body and tail feathers

This vintage Danish Modern Viking figure

The colors on this fan are very lush and the paper quite heavy

with a couple of small dents (see last photo)

recently sold at auction for $325

Australian Aboriginal Wooden Clapsticks with Pyrographed Decoration - A Pair wax candle body and tail feathersThese wooden clapsticks, or clappers, or singing sticks, make a terrifically satisfying clap when struck in addition to being wonderful objects that feel great in the hand. There is a fantastic variety of Australian Aboriginal clapsticks out there many decorated with burned designs like these, others painted and or carved. They have been used as percussive instruments for thousands of years, often in concert with the didgeridoo, a wind instrument of