Shell Money
Unidentified maker (Solomon Islands)
Shell
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Normand J. Brule
53.48.12904
Geography
Place Made: Solomon Islands, Melanesia, Oceania
Object Name
Currency
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by N. J. Brule, White River Junction, Vermont, in the Solomon Island (during service in World War II), about 1943; given to present collection, 1953.
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