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Maker(s):not applicable
Culture:not applicable
Title:Cypraea - Orange Cowry
Type:Zoology
Materials:shell
Accession Number:  MH SK X.B.17.a.8
Credit Line:Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, Mount Holyoke College
Museum Collection:  The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College

Description:
Cypraea aurantium (Mart.). One specimen. Fiji, Solomon, Loyalty Islands. Uniform bright orange color fading at the extremities to white. The royal shell of the Fiji Islands. Permission to wear it as a mark of the highest friendship.

Tags:
natural history

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