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Shell beads
Object Number 14-23-70/85665
Display Title Shell beads
Descriptions
Inventory Description Beads, white discoidal shell beads on fiber string
Classification
  • Bead
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Kiribati
Materials Shell, Plant fiber
Dimensions Overall: 0.8 x 0.8 x 0.1 cm (5/16 x 5/16 x 1/16 in.)
Quantity 575
Label on object 85665
Provenance
Donor Mrs. G. P. Bradley (1914)

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