Cowrie Shells
Tell Fara South
Palestine
Near East
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 (University College, London); Museum and Art Gallery Reading, England; sold to present collection, 1939.
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