Antique Australian aboriginal carved emu egg no. 3 the teeth are flattened for

the teeth are flattened for crushing hard shells

This is a skull of the common guillemot

The practice of putting sealing up dead animals into the walls of houses has been going since the middle ages in Europe

This is a really nice looking and a very tactile item

Another unusual and intriguing looking skull and a great addition to a collection

Antique Australian aboriginal carved emu egg no. 3 the teeth are flattened forThis 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