Alcheringa Images

Necklace or headband

Bought in Cairns, Queensland

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Details

Collector/creator
Alexander Yashchenko
Time collected
1903
Location collected
Mitchell River, upper reaches, North Queensland
Transfer history
Russian Geographical Society, Saint Petersburg > >
Current museum
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Saint Petersburg
Time deposited to current museum
1905
Current museum number
921-16
Material
Pearlshell, plant fibre
Measurements
Plates ranging in size from 2.5 to 4 cm, strung on a cord of plant fibres 83 cm long
Source/publication/study
Kabo 1960