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Object Number
48-56-70/3115
Display Title
String of shell money
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Beads, discoidal white shell and black coconut shell on fiber string
Classification
- Bead
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
Additional Geographic Terms
Melanesia
Materials
Shell, Coconut shell, Vegetable fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 71 x 0.5 x 0.5 cm (27 15/16 x 3/16 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
48-56-70/3115
Provenance
Collector
Dr. Harry Clark
(1917 - 1948)
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