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Hair pads, birra-birra
Media Restricted
Object Number 23-46-70/D1745
Display Title Hair pads, birra-birra
Descriptions
Inventory Description Hair pad, round flat bundle of twisted and knotted human hair
Classification
  • Accessory
  • Shaft, modified
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Australia / Western Australia
Oceania / Australia / Western Australia / Kimberley
Materials Human hair
Dimensions Overall: 22 × 21 × 5 cm (8 11/16 × 8 1/4 × 1 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object D-1745
Provenance
Collector E. Clement (1922)
Seller Unknown (2/26/1923)

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 		23-46-70/D1745.1 Hair pads, birra-birra
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