Australian head band

Head-band

Lower Murray River, South Australia

19th century

Fiber, resin, Lower incisors of the Macropodidae sp., and pigment 27,5 cm (w/o strings) x 4,7 cm (w/o teeth)

Provenance: Obtained with items collected at the end of the 19th century

Publication: Meyer, Anthony JP. : WALKABOUT - the Early Art of the Australian Aborigines/l'Art Ancien des Aborigènes d'Australie A Selection of Early Eskimo Art/ et une Sélection d'art Ancien Eskimo. Galerie Meyer, Paris. 2012, p. 37, fig. 52.

See a comparable example in the National Museum of Victoria, Inv. X1576

Object Presented by:
Anthony J.P. Meyer
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