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

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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