Cowrie Shells

Tell Fara South
Palestine
Near East

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Cowrie shell

Overall: 17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

39.64.6649

Geography

Place Made: Tell el-Far’a, Palestine, Eastern Mediterranean, Israel, West Asia, Asia

Object Name

Personal Adornment

Research Area

Near East

Not on view

Exhibition History

The Age of the Marvelous, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 21-November 24, 1991; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, January 25-March 22, 1992; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, May 24-August 25, 1992; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, October 6, 1992-January 3, 1993, naturalia no. n159.

Provenance

British School of Archaeology in Egypt (Univeristy College, London); Museum and Art Gallery Reading, England; sold to present collection, 1939.

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