Antique Australian aboriginal carved emu egg On the reverse you can

On the reverse you can see that it is stitched with plant fibres onto a rough hessian type backing

There are a few cowries missing as can be seen in the photos

This is a breed of dog that is rarely seen outside the Czech republic and was very popular among the Royal households of Central Europe

Large and impressive woolly mammoth thoracic vertebra

The cranium is in excellent condition with no chips or cracks and also has a nice Wormian bone at the junction of the frontal and sagittal sutures

Antique Australian aboriginal carved emu egg On the reverse you canThis 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