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Neck jewellery,
Tjurunga?
The collector gave an unspecific, pejorative term as a cultural ascription, which indicates to Western Desert (WA) groups; the object was initially recorded as a object was initially recorded as a tjurunga, but appears to be more of a a neck ornament from a secret/sacred, ritual context. ritual context.
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Ethnologische Sammlung der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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Cultural attribution
indigenes Australien
Object type
sacred objects
Dimensions
L: 15,00 cm; B: 4,50
cm
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Ethnologische Sammlung der
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Inventory number
ESG_Oz 681
Provenance and sources
when
before 1928
where
Australia, Western Australia (WA), near
Derby
who
Emile Clement - Former Possessors
Description
From 1920 onwards, Emile Clement
himself, but acquired objects through intermediaries from North Western
North Western Australia.
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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