- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Smooth rounded pebble used as a love charm.
- Geographical reference
- Queensland Torres Strait Islands Mer Island (Murray Island)
- Cultural groups
- Meriam Mir
- Person
- Field collector Alfred Cort Haddon
- Field collector Cambridge Torres Straits Expedition
- PRM source Alfred Cort Haddon
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1888
- Date collected
- ?1888
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1889
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Length: max 108 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1889.34.129
- Associated publications
- Reference: Presense and absense, Main author: Marina Abramović; Oxford, Page: 176-179, Page illustrated: 176-177, 178, Notes: Smooth pebble used as a love charm, Torres Strait.
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