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Snail shell (raw material for snail shell money)
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Snail shell (raw material for snail shell money)
Dimensions
Gewicht: 0,13 kg
Verpackungsmaß: 17 x 10,5 x 1 cm
Material/Technique
Snail shell
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 34615

Provenance and sources

when
before 1910
where
Melanesia [Großregion]
Bismarck Archipelago [Inselgruppe]
New Ireland [Insel]
Papua New Guinea [Land]

who
Walden, Edgar - Collectors
Deutsche Marine Expedition

Description
Purchase from German Marine Expedition (Edgar Walden) 1910

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