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Cataloguing data

Object type
Snail shells (raw material for snail shell money)
Dimensions
Width: 10,5 cm
Height: 17 cm
Depth: 1 cm
Material/Technique
Snail shell (Chrysostoma paradoxum)
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 24707 b

Provenance and sources

Production
when
before 1906
where
Melanesia
Bismarck Archipelago
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

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