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A cream colored ostrich egg with an ostrich motif. The front of the egg shows two ostriches sitting in the sand with grass and two palm trees in the background. The back of the egg has three motifs suggesting Aboriginal war instruments. This is the reason for placing this egg in Australia.
pictures (two-dimensional representations)
glassblowing
eggshell (animal material)
painting (coating)
glass (material)
deserts
figure- and animal-derived motifs
ostrich
Eggshell
Blown
Painted
Ostrich
Desert
PICTURE, EGG
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
Australia
6.5 (H), 5 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.962
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