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Snail shell money
Data Provider
Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Snail shell money
Dimensions
Gewicht: < 2 kg
Höhe x Breite x Tiefe: 1 x 15,5 x 0,5 cm
Material/Technique
Snail shell (Conus ?), Plant fibre , Glass, Coconut shell
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 24689 b
Related object(s)
is related to : Objektbezug: VI 24689 a, Schneckenschalengeld, vor 1906, Otto Schneider (1900)
Objektbezug: VI 24689 a, Schneckenschalengeld, vor 1906, Otto Schneider (1900)

Provenance and sources

when
before 1906
where
Melanesia [Großregion]
Admiralty Islands [Inselgruppe]
Papua New Guinea [Land]

who
Otto Schneider - Collectors
Maass, Alfred - Former Possessors

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