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Item X 12338 Ornament, head. Ord River, Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia. before 1900

Physical Description

A headband made or necklace made of bandicoot tails, teeth encased in resin and segments of bone attached to a band.

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Object/Medium

Ornament, head
Maker

Unknown
Locality

Ord River, Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia
Date Produced

before 1900
Date Collected

Pre 1904
Object Measurements

240 mm (Length), 230 mm (Width), 40 mm (Height)
Keywords

Body Decoration
Type of item

Object
Discipline

Anthropology
Category

First Peoples
Collecting Areas

Central and Western and South Australian Ethnographic

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Item X 12338 Ornament, head. Ord River, Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia. before 1900

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