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Object Number
40-12-70/1923
Display Title
Shell money - string of white beads with few red ones
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Currency, white discoidal shell beads, with red glass beads, on fiber cord
Classification
- Currency
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
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Solomon islands
/
<State>
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Bougainville Island
Additional Geographic Terms
North
Materials
Shell, Glass, Plant fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 73 x 0.9 x 0.6 cm (28 3/4 x 3/8 x 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
40-12-70/1923
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