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Author
Safer, Jane Fearer.
Title
Spirals from the sea : an anthropological look at shells / Jane Fearer Safer and Frances McLaughlin Gill ; designed by Betty Binns
Edition
First edition
Published
New York : C.N. Potter : distributed by Crown, [1982]
New York : C.N. Potter : distributed by Crown, 1982
©1982
©1982
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W'PONDS
594.0471 Saf
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Description
192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 x 26 cm
Contents
Shells in daily life -- Shells as wealth -- Shells as emblems of status -- Shells in ritual and myth
Summary
Includes references to use by, and ritual significance of shells to, Aboriginal Australians
Notes
"Published in association with the American Museum of Natural History."
Includes index
Bibliography
Bibliography: pages 184-189
Subject
Shellcraft.
Shells -- Social aspects.
Author
Gill, Frances McLaughlin.
LC no.
80025923
ISBN
0517540363
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