Summary
This necklace is made of vegetable fibre string to which kangaroo or wallaby incisors are attached. The teeth are embedded in resin and attached to the band at points with human hair string.
Physical Description
A necklace made of kangaroo incisors embedded in wax or resin attached to a cord of vegetable fibre strings and human hair string.
More Information
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Object/Medium
Ornament, neck
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Date Collected
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Object Measurements
230 mm (Length), 180 mm (Width), 40 mm (Height)
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Acquisition Information
Presented from Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer & Francis James Gillen
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Collecting Areas
Australian Indigenous - Northern Australia and Queensland and Torres Strait Islands