Detailed study of the uses of pearl shell in Aboriginal culture; sources of shell, material types, manufacturing and engraving tools and techniques; function - personal adornment, magic and sorcery, ritual; use in exchange - distribution modes and exchange routes; description and meaning of motifs - geometric (meander, zigzag, interlocking key) and figurative (traditional and nontraditional); historical developments in the 20th century; utensils - shell; portable art; arts - change; arts - crafts; arts - techniques; ornaments; ritual objects - other; trade and gift exchange
Analysis
Glyptics - Western Australia - Kimberley
Pearl-fisheries - Western Australia - Kimberley
Aboriginal Australians -- Industries -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
Mother-of-pearl
Arts, Aboriginal Australian -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
Notes
Bibliography; p. 65-67; Cover title; Riji and Jakoli
Bibliography
Bibliography: p. 65-67
Notes
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
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