Production
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when
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before 1928
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Neck jewellery, Tjurunga?
The collector gave an unspecific, pejorative term as a cultural attribution, indicating affiliation with Western Desert (WA) groups; the object was initially recorded as a tjurunga, but appears to be more of a necklace from a secret/sacred, ritual context.
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Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- indigenes Australien
- Object type
- sacred objects
- Dimensions
- L: 15.00 cm; W: 4.50 cm
- Material/Technique
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Musselshell
- Object genre
- Ethnographica
- Current location
- Ethnologische Sammlung der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- Inventory number
- ESG_Oz 681
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Change of physical control or legal title:
Unknown type of acquisition-
where
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Australia, Western Australia (WA), near Derby
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who
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Emile Clement - Former Possessors
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Description
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From 1920 onwards, Emile Clement no longer collected objects himself, but acquired them through intermediaries in North Western Australia.
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Change of physical control or legal title:
Purchase-
when
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1928
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where
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Ethnological Collection of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
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who
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Emile Clement
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- Secondary literature
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E. Clement: Ethnographical Note on the Western-Australien Aborigines, Intern. Archiv f. Ethnograph. XVI, 1903, Leyden.
Information about the record
- Legal status metadata
- CC0 1.0 DEED
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