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Object Number 99-12-70/53580
Display Title Shell armlet
Descriptions
Inventory Description Bracelet, bangle, carved white shell, serraged edges
Classification
  • Bracelet
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / France / French Polynesia
Additional Geographic Terms Marquesas Islands?
Materials Shell
Dimensions Overall: 8.8 x 8.2 x 0.7 cm (3 7/16 x 3 1/4 x 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53580
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor L. Cushing Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton

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