Shell Money

Unidentified maker (Ghana)

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Overall: 1 3/16 × 11/16 in. (3 × 1.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glenn Babbitt

174.30.31992

Geography

Place Made: Ghana, Western Africa, Africa

Object Name

Money

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Provenance

Glenn Babbitt; given to present collection, 1974.

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