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Tjurunga

was probably collected in the north of Western Australia in the Pilbara or Kimberley regions

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
indigenes Australien
Object type
sacred objects
Dimensions
L: 34.50 cm; W: 3.70 cm
Material/Technique
Wood
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Ethnologische Sammlung der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Inventory number
ESG_Oz 679
Other number(s)
2058 (alt. Nr.) (Old inventory number)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1928
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Unknown type of acquisition
    where
    Australia, Western Australia (WA), North Western Australia
    who
    Emile Clement - Former Possessors
    Description
    From 1920 onwards, Emile Clement no longer collected objects himself, but acquired them through intermediaries in North Western Australia.
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Purchase
    when
    1928
    where
    Ethnological Collection of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
    who
    Emile Clement
Secondary literature
E. Clement: Ethnographical Note on the Western-Australien Aborigines, Intern. Archiv f. Ethnograph. XVI, 1903, Leyden.

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CC0 1.0 DEED
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