Gold-covered Shell

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Public Domain

CultureCalima
Titles
  • Gold-covered Shell
  • Conch Shell
Date200 BC–200 AD
PlaceColombia
MediumGold and shell
DimensionsOverall: 9 7/16 × 4 5/8 in. (24 × 11.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2010.1050
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
ProvenanceAlfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913–2008), Houston, before December, 1998–until d. 2008 [1]; Estate of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., 2008–2010; given to MFAH, 2010.



[1] Glassell Album #14, AG precedes photographs taken December 30, 1998.

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