Pair of Large Shell Earrings, c.1890
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AC 2002.2_1
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Shelf 32 Box 4
A pair of large shell earrings believed to be from the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes at Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho. A braided piece of brown metal in looped through each of the pink and white circular shell pieces. On each earring is an etching of a male deer. The edges of the shells are scalloped and one of the earrings is damaged. These earrings belonged Zatae Longsdorff, class of 1887.
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