An outcry from Tasmanian Aborigines prompted Sotheby's to pull a pair of busts from auction just hours before the sale in Melbourne. Woureddy, An Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land and Trucaninny, Wife of Woureddy, by the English artist Benjamin Law, were expected to set a record price for sculpture in Australia, with pre-sale estimates of between $500,000 and $700,000. Protesters objected to the commercial sale of images of their ancestors.