Ornament, head

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Item X 44823 Ornament, head. Cairns, Rainforest, Queensland, Australia. 1900

Physical Description

A head or neck ornament made of a single section of shell (likely Nautilus) attached to a single length of vegetable fibre string. The edges of the shell have been ground and it has a single hole through which the string is threaded and secured with a knot.

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Object/Medium

Ornament, head
Maker

Unknown
Locality

Cairns, Rainforest, Queensland, Australia
Date Produced

1900
Date Collected

1900
Keywords

Body Decoration
Collection Names

Percival C. Cole Collection
Type of item

Object
Discipline

Anthropology
Category

First Peoples
Collecting Areas

Australian Indigenous - Northern Australia and Queensland and Torres Strait Islands

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Item X 44823 Ornament, head. Cairns, Rainforest, Queensland, Australia. 1900

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