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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Fine Art + Aboriginal Art
• Sale Date:
  02 Dec 2015 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  205
• Lot Description:
  A Group Of Five Tasmanian Shell Necklaces
  maireener and trochus shells (5)
  variable lengths, 90.0 cm longest
• Notes:
  For another example see: Kleinert, S. and Neale, M., Aboriginal Art and Culture, Oxford University Press, New York, 2000 p. 698: Kleinert notes ‘Ideally the necklace makers like to collect maireener shells, a common shell used in the necklaces, on a low spring tide as most are gathered by hand while walking knee deep in sea water... the shells then undergo a series of cleaning, drying and polishing before they are laid out to dry, once dry they are pierced with a sharp tool. Traditionally the women threaded the shells together using a length of double strength thread which is doubled again for even more strength’.
• Estimate:
  A$2,000 - 3,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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