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An Australian Aboriginal pearl shell lonka lonka (pubic cover)
Realised: $920 plus premium
Current Bid $920 (46 bids, reserve met)
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Lot Details
suspended on a human hair belt with tassel, red ochre remnants to shell and hair; eccentrically drilled hourglass suspension hole. 20thC. 170 x 140mm. Belt approx 990mm. Provenance: Angela Saussehrd Collection, Queensland; noted as collected by an amateur anthropologist in the late 1960s, in the western part of the Northern Territory near Kintore. The Jorgen Lotz Collection.