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Mother-of-pearl shell with designs (tree, animal, butterfly, snake, dog, bird, etc.)

Ornament used to cover the genitals, female.

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Details

Collector/creator
Emile Clement
Time collected
1890s
Location collected
Pidungu (Ngaiawongga) people, North-Western Australia
Transfer history
Central Museum of Ethnology (Narodovedenie), Moscow > Moscow Art College > >
Current museum
Museum of Anthropology of Moscow State University
Time deposited to current museum
1948
Current museum number
241-29
Material
Shell
Source/publication/study
Kabo notes; Govor & Novikova 1989; Balakhonova 2016