Pearl-shell ornament "riji" or "jakoli" · Australia, Western Australia, Kimberley region · ID: 3047863
sold
EUR 600
Provenance
German Collection (1950s)Size
H: 17,5 cm
B: 11,5 cm
H: 6.9 inch
B: 4.5 inch
Description
shell (mostly “gold lip” - Pinctada maxima), red ochre, human hair, crack, rest.
Comparing literature
Akerman, Kim & John Stanton, Riji and Jakuli: Kimberley Pearl Shell in Aboriginal Australia, o.O. 1993, p. 30, plate 23 b