Busycon Shell
40393A
From: United States of America | Florida | Southwest Coast (Florida) | Key Marco | Collier County
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 40393A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | United States of America | Florida | Southwest Coast (Florida) | Key Marco | Collier County |
| Culture Area | Southeast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Busycon Shell |
| Description | Series of worked busycon shells. Illustrating process of breaking away whorls from columellae to form adze and ornament material. The one lot consists of four examples (two columellae broken out to form adze bodies.) |
| Length | 20 cm |
| Width | 11 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Florida Expedition, Frank H. Cushing; subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 268 - Field Number | 70-19-67 A/B - Other Number |
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