Souvenir Seashell
notes: label: Description
content: Cameo cowrie shell marked "SOUVENIR FOR / MOTHER FROM / GALVESTON". Brown-speckled, cream-colored shell is relief-carved in decorative fonts, exposing purple layer below.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Texas, Galveston
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Kathy Merlock Jackson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0350.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0350
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0350.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shell
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: shell, cowrie (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: carved (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 2 3/8 in; 5.3975 cm x 8.89 cm x 6.0325 cm