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Snail shell and snail shell (raw material for snail shell money)

Data Provider
Ethnologisches Museum Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Snail shell and snail shell (raw material for snail shell money)
Dimensions
Weight: 0,05 kg
Width: 10,5 cm
Height: 17 cm
Depth: 1 cm
Material/Technique
Snail shell (Conomurex luhuanus)
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 24710 e

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1906
    where
    Melanesia
    Bismarck Archipelago
    Amboina
    Duke of York Islands
    Papua New Guinea
  • Collecting
    who
    Otto Schneider - Collectors
    Maass, Alfred - Former Possessors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Donation from Alfred Maass 1906
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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