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Language: Tahitian
Language: Tahitian

Shell money or neck jewellery

Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

Object type
shell money
Dimensions
570 x 130 x 65 mm
Material/Technique
Mollusc shell; unknown material, vegetable; fibre, vegetable
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 4502
Other number(s)
RJM 1899/01 (Convolute number)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1897
    where
    Papua New Guinea
    historical: German New Guinea
    Oceania -> Polynesia -> West Polynesia -> West Polynesia (exclaves) -> Nukumanu
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Not clarified
    when
    1874
    who

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