cowrie money
- Museum number
- 2014,2011.31
- Description
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A large decorated? cowry shell.
- Production date
- 20thC(early) (early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 4 centimetres
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Width: 7.70 centimetres
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Depth: 5.40 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 2014
- Acquisition notes
- This collection was made by the donor’s father, Harold Ingrams OBE CMG, who was appointed Assistant District Commissioner to Zanzibar in 1919, and who went on to serve as Private Secretary both to the British Resident and to the Sultan of Zanzibar until he left in 1927.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2014,2011.31