Ornament, neck, Australia, Kimberley

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Item X 98245 Pintjapintja | Ornament, neck. Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia

Local Name

Pintjapintja

Physical Description

Flattened leafate shaped pearl shell pendant with a hole drilled through one end and a length of finely spun human hair string attached. One side is decorated with a concentric pattern of diamonds infilled with red ochre. Other side is decorated with incised patterns consisting of a cross, triangle V shape infilled with red ochre.

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Object/Medium

Ornament, neck
Maker

Unrecorded
Locality

Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia
Collector

Mr Robert Edwards - Museum of Victoria
Date Collected

1995
Object Measurements

330 mm (Length), 60 mm (Width), 25 mm (Height)
Classification

Bunjilaka, Many nations, Celebrating culture
Date Made

about 1920
Maker

Not Recorded
Clan/Language Group

Bardi
Place Made

Broome, Western Australia, Australia
Indigenous Region

Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia
Collection Names

The Christensen Fund Collection
Type of item

Object
Discipline

Anthropology
Category

First Peoples
Collecting Areas

Central and Western and South Australian Ethnographic

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