Antique Australian aboriginal carved emu egg The cranium is in excellent

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

The inner ear is removable to show the semi-circular canals etc

medically prepared real human foot bones

America and Asia

Antique Australian aboriginal carved emu egg The cranium is in excellentThis 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