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An Australian Aboriginal pearl shell lonka lonka (pubic cover)

Estimate $240 - $500

Realised: $920 plus premium

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.

An Australian Aboriginal pearl shell lonka lonka (pubic cover) Image 1++
An Australian Aboriginal pearl shell lonka lonka (pubic cover) Image 1++