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Object Number 30-54-70/D3426
Display Title Bark belt
Descriptions
Inventory Description Bark strip, rigid, circular, two fiber ties where ends overlap, polychrome diamond and crosshatch designs on exterior, red, white, yellow, black pigments
Classification
  • Belt
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Yolngu
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Australia / Northern Territory / Arnhem Land
Oceania / Australia / Northern Territory
Additional Geographic Terms Northeast
Dimensions Overall: 23.3 × 21.9 × 5.5 cm (9 3/16 × 8 5/8 × 2 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object D-3426
Provenance
Collector W. Lloyd Warner (1929-1930)
Seller W. Lloyd Warner (1930)

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