Fears Indigenous Tasmanian necklaces could become lost art – ABC News

For more than six generations, the women in Lola Greeno’s family have carried on an Indigenous Tasmanian tradition of making shell necklaces.
Key points:

• Maireener shell numbers are declining dramatically across Tasmania
• The Aboriginal community worries its tradition of using the shells to make necklaces will be lost
• A new project aims to document the necklace-making technique

Now she is worried the cultural practice, which dates back hundreds of years, could…

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