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Object Number 2020.3.1
Display Title Conch shell
Descriptions
Object Description Conch shell
Inventory Description Conch shell, white, dark lines, spiral, pointed end, flared lip
Classification
  • Shell
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hadza
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Tanzania
Materials Shell
Dimensions Overall: 8 × 5.7 × 4.5 cm (3 1/8 × 2 1/4 × 1 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2020.3.1
Credit Line Gift of Frank Marlowe, Anthropologist, and the Hadza people of Tanzania

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