Costume details and decorations

Name of the exhibit

Kauri Shell

Brief description

Kauri is a shell from the marine gastropod molluscs family of small and medium sizes; the color of the found one is white. It was used in ancient times, particularly in China 3500 years ago, as money.
Another use of kauri is as an adornment.

Period/date

Wide dating

Manufacturing material

Shell

Dimensions

1,5 × 2,0 cm.

Place of storage, inventory number

Kherson Regional Museum of Local Lore. Inv. No. ВХ-1521/32

First publication

«Na rozi dvokh svitiv. Istorychna spadshchyna Ukrainy ta Lytvy na terytorii Khersonskoi oblasti». Authors: S.O.Biliaieva, K.S.Hulenko, O.Ye.Fialko, M.M.Iievlev, O.V.Hrabovska, O.V.Manihda, O.V.Chubenko. O.V.Symonenko, O.V.Dzneladze, D.M.Sikoza. Kyiv-Kherson, Hileia, 2018, p. 59.