- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Piece of cowrie shell, shaped for use as scraper.
- Geographical reference
- Louisiade Archipelago Engineer Islands
- Person
- Field collector Charles Gabriel Seligman
- PRM source Charles Gabriel Seligman
- PRM source Brenda Zara Seligman
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1940
- Date collected
- By 1940
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1940
- Materials and processes
- Material Cowrie Shell
- Dimensions
- Length: max 72 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1940.12.377
- Research and responses
Cypraea are commonly known as cowrie shells. [Encyclopædia Britannica Online] [CF 11/4/2000]
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