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2008.97.1

Shell 'Gold-lipped oyster' (Meleagrina), highly valued and used as currency. [LKG 11/8/2008]

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2008.97.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Shell 'Gold-lipped oyster' (Meleagrina), highly valued and used as currency. [LKG 11/8/2008]
Geographical reference
Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea
Bismarck Archipelago New Britain
Person
Field collector Beatrice Mary Blackwood
PRM source Beatrice Mary Blackwood
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1930
Date collected
29 September 1929 - 8 October 1930?
Acquisition information
Donated: 1931 Found unentered: 08/08/2008
Materials and processes
Material Shell
Dimensions
Width: max 205 mm, Length: max 200 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 2008.97.1
Research and responses

For further information about this period of fieldwork see the RDF in Documentation and Blackwood's publication from this work: 'Both Sides of Buka Passage: an ethnographic study of social, sexual, and economic questions in the north-western Solomon Islands.' 1935. Oxford, Clarendon Press. [CK 05 05 1998]

Search terms: Specimen, Currency, Ornament, Animalia, Shell

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