Box of Cowrie Shells

Medium

Cowrie shell, glass, cardboard

Dimensions

Diam. 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm)

Classification

Shell-Implements

Culture

Ghanaian

Department

Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Alfred L. Scheinberg in memory of Bernard Scheinberg, 1987

Accession Number

1987.328.2