Four volute shell necklaces

AUSTRALIA AND NEW GUINEA

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Four volute shell necklaces
Australia and New Guinea
A Tasmanian necklace of white shells, another of small dark shells, another of beige-coloured shells, apparently from Lake Sentani, and another of very small shells, from Cape Barren (4)

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A label to the necklace of very small shells reads: This little shell necklace (made by the native girls at Cape Barren, a very remote part of Australia) I thought might interest you. It was sent to me by the Governor, who with his wife & a married friend is magistrate, doctor, minister & undertaker!! being the only wh. men there.

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