Shell

Museum number:
10-1081
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21100001081
Accession number:
Acc.852
Description:
Cowrie shells; all approx. 3/4”1. Used by various Filipino groups in Malayan game of Sunka.
Donor:
Harold Colyer Conklin
Collection place:
Luzon Island, Luzon island group, Philippines
Collector:
Harold Colyer Conklin
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shell samples
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:
1945
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Shell, accession number 10-1081, described as Cowrie shells; all approx. 3/4”1. Used by various Filipino groups in Malayan game of Sunka.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Shell, accession 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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