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

Provenance and sources

when
before 1906
where
Melanesia [Großregion]
Bismarck Archipelago [Inselgruppe]
Amboina
Duke of York Islands [Inselgruppe]
Papua New Guinea [Land]

who
Otto Schneider - Collectors
Maass, Alfred - Former Possessors

Description
Donation from Alfred Maass 1906

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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