The name of this item is missing in its original language. If you know the name or have any comments, please use the form to get in touch with the institution that provided the data.
Kalakalang kambang
Data Provider
Ethnologisches Museum
Show only fields containing data

Cataloguing data

Object type
Mussel shells (raw material for snail shell money)
Dimensions
Gewicht: 0,18 kg
Verpackungsmaß: 17 x 10,5 x 1 cm
Material/Technique
Mussel shell Isognomon ephippium
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 24712 b

Provenance and sources

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

who
Otto Schneider - Collectors
Maass, Alfred - Former Possessors

Description
Donation from Alfred Maass 1906

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
This content was machine-translated
2.1 / 7.0