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7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
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Remove constraint Function: 7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, museum number 5-10295, described as Money? string of cowry shells; tightly bound; double row.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, museum number 5-10296, described as Money? string of cowry shells; double row; tightly bound.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, museum number 1-225476, described as Dentalia shells on iris fiber string.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, museum number 5-10293, described as Money?; string of cowry shells; double row; tighly bound.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, museum number 10-1081, described as Cowrie shells; all approx. 3/4”1. Used by various Filipino groups in Malayan game of Sunka.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, museum number 5-10297, described as Money? string of cowry shells; double row; tightly bound.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, museum number 1-19889, described as Dentalium shells, found in Ishi's trunk after his death.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, museum number 1-225475, described as Dentalium shells.
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