Object Number | 2010-28-5 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Samoa Islands |
Section | Oceanian |
Materials | Cowrie Shell |
Description | Job lot of shells, almost all cowries. Three pierced with tufts of reddish plant fiber, one other (possibly) pierced for stringing. Otherwise unaltered. Various sizes and colors, many very dirty, others clean and shiny. |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2010 |
Other Number | ED3154 - Museum Education Number | Civic 1995.x.16572 - Old Museum Number |
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