More information that kind of fits my hypothesis that my items are at the very least from the first half of the 20th century perhaps even before the 1930s. Here is an extract from; Hunting the collectors, Pacific collections in the Australian museum of art.
Sir Charles Murr a commonwealth government minister, presented two model canoes he had been given by " native chiefs of Bouganville" as noted AIA catalogue card, and finally a large collection of both Aboriginal and Pacific material was received in 1935 or 1936 donated by South Australian pastoralist JW Lindo.
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