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Object Number
40-12-70/1697
Display Title
Shell money - short string of pink and white beads
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Currency, small pink and white discoidal shell beads, on plant fiber strand
Classification
- Currency
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Siwai
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Solomon islands
/
<State>
/
Bougainville Island
Materials
Shell, Plant fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 18.3 x 0.9 x 0.5 cm (7 3/16 x 3/8 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
40-12-70/1697
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