Aboriginal ‘Lonka Lonka’ Pubic-Cover Iatmul Culture

Iatmul Culture

The stone adze heads were a valuable currency and it was very laborious to sharpen them into tools

Pigments and relief carving with pierced ears at the top

“An old man painted with stripes of various colors and distinguished from the rest by a shell hanging from his girdle”

Aboriginal ‘Lonka Lonka’ Pubic-Cover Iatmul CultureAboriginal Pearl Shell Lonka Lonka Publc Cover, Western Australia, circa late 19th early 20th century. Ex. Michael Hanson, Palos Verdes, Ex. Mark Assayag, Montreal Pearl shells were in use from at least 1818. In 1818 the French explorers Freycinet records the following in Shark Bay, Western Australia. An old man painted with stripes of various colors and distinguished from the rest by a shell hanging from his girdle.