Australian Aboriginal Wooden Clapsticks with Pyrographed Decoration - A Pair wax candle especially the downturned beak

especially the downturned beak

recently sold at auction for $325

body and tail feathers

as an creative interpretation of the painting

with a couple of small dents (see last photo)

Australian Aboriginal Wooden Clapsticks with Pyrographed Decoration - A Pair wax candle especially the downturned beakThese 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