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A Solomon Islands shell money necklace. Made from Conus shells.…
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Auckland
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19-Jun-2013
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A Solomon Islands shell money necklace. Made from Conus shells. Provenance: Collected by Captain Tilly, Captain of the Melanesian Mission ship 'The Southern cross.' Literature: an almost identical necklace pictured in Roger Neich and Fuli Pereira's 'Pacific jewellery and adornment,' David Bateman Ltd., 2004. Pg. 110
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Tribal: S/E Asia, Oceania & Pacific