Pendant
Pearl shell pendant. No designs have been engraved but there is a hole pierced at the top for a hair string belt. Made in the Kimberly region of NW Australia. Traded widely inland where its form and meaning differ. Shell is normally broken down into shapes and traded. It has a name ‘riji’ which means pearl. The ‘jakuli’ was worn by men around the waist or the neck. Associated with the water essence of life, and embodies shimmering qualities of water rain and lightning.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 33/1953/47
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Personal ornament
- Material
- shell (pearl)
- Common Name
- pendant
- Simple Name
- ornament
- Production County
- Kimberly
- Production Country
- Australia