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Trochus shell and button
Queensland Museum Network
Brisbane, Australia
Trochus niloticus (species name)
Trochus shell-from which button blanks have been cut.
Collected by M.C. Quinnell and W.B.H. Saylor, from Erub, in 2004
Queensland Museum, QE12760 & QE12761.2.
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Details
- Title: Trochus shell and button
- Location: Seim Village, Erub (Darnley) Island, Torres Strait
- Provenance: Queensland Museum
- See at Queensland Museum : http://www.awakening.qm.qld.gov.au/
- Photographer: Quinnell, Michael C and Saylor, William Bully Hayes
- Format / Medium of Object: Significant events in Torres Strait history have affected the maintenance and continuation of Torres Strait Islander culture: contact with Europeans, the development of the pearling industry and the arrival of Christian missionaries. These processes cause
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