- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Cowrie shell. [El.B 16/08/2011]
- Person
- Field collector Beatrice Mary Blackwood
- PRM source Beatrice Mary Blackwood
- PRM source Mary French
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1976
- Date collected
- By 1976
- Acquisition information
- Bequeathed: uncertain Found unentered: 1976
- Materials and processes
- Material Cowrie Shell
- Dimensions
- Length: max 17 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1976.19.31
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