Black Crow Shell - Necklace Cathy Savage The Truly Iconic Mineral Icons

The Truly Iconic Mineral Icons of the Australian Museum celebrates the opening of the Australian Museum’s new permanent Minerals Gallery in December 2022

Meticulously extracted from the renowned Green River Valley Formation in Wyoming

A selection of shell illustrations

No camping trip is complete without a delicious campfire meal

Black Crow Shell - Necklace Cathy Savage The Truly Iconic Mineral IconsBlack crow shell necklace, 50 cm length he striking jewellery produced by Palawa Tasmanian artist Aunty Jeanette James using traditional Palawa shell stringing techniques. These skills are many thousands of years old and are handed down matrilineally. The Mariner shells collected along the coastline of Lutruwita are rare. To gather the shells required to produce a range of jewellery can take two to three years. Aunty Jeanette stringently follows