Antique Australian aboriginal carved emu egg no. 3 This is a very well

This is a very well cleaned and prepared skull and complete with quadrate bones although the pterygoid are missing

This is a really nice looking and a very tactile item

The skull measures 17

human amnion

The practice of putting sealing up dead animals into the walls of houses has been going since the middle ages in Europe

Antique Australian aboriginal carved emu egg no. 3 This is a very wellThis specimen probably dates from mid to late 19th Century. This is known as "Kalti Paarti", the practice of carving emu eggs. This art form has been continued to the present day. These early example usually have quite nave carvings compared to the later tourist items. With this example if you look closely you can see where the shell has been scraped away with a blade of some description and smoother areas where the pattern was smoothed, often using