Coquillage sculpté et gravé Shell carved and engraved with a Kanak village and t…

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Coquillage sculpté et gravé

Shell carved and engraved with a Kanak village and the words S° DE LA Nele Cnie (Souvenir de la Nouvelle Calédonie) dated 1892. Work by a prison artist from the late 19th or early 20th century, probably from New Caledonia.

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Coquillage sculpté et gravé

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