Emu egg with carved decoration depicting a large tree and a farmer and two dogs in an altercation with a kangaroo

‘This egg was bought from Aboriginal people by a gentleman travelling around the countryside of western New South Wales on his bicycle. Originally one of a pair, it came to the Gallery from the granddaughter of the original owner. The egg depicts, in the round, an altercation between a farmer and a kangaroo with a marvellous abstract wild tree as background.’

(Jim Logan, Everyday Art: Australian Folk Art, 1998, p. 16)