A Luristan Bronze Openwork Pinhead, ca. early first millennium BCE Household Goods Condition: Intact and in very

Condition:  Intact and in very good condition overall

in the Northern Territory

as a strap to carry ‘parrajas’ (wooden bowls) that are laden with bush tucker and as a tourniquet for headaches

Pataikos is a dwarf god with apotropaic functions who was very popular with the people and exclusively used in amulet form

A Luristan Bronze Openwork Pinhead, ca. early first millennium BCE Household Goods Condition: Intact and in veryThis openwork pin, cast from the lost wax process, depicts a master of animals figure wearing a headdress and ribbed collar with arms raised, flanked by two inverted lions, framed in a crescent emerging from a lion mask at the base of the figure and terminating in a pair of caprid heads with ribbed collars. Pins of this form were the most popular votive pins in Luristan. The diety shown on them all in the role of "master mistress of animals" was of