do you have photos to send? Im an archaeologist from Chile, and im
working with shell artifacts,
my email [log in to unmask] (i think the list doesnt allow to send attachments)
marcela


On 4/25/07, Julio E Palacios Koo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Jass,
>
>  Really the things are as you said, the photo is too small, and i can't
> appreciate the details, but if you ask me my irresponsible opinion, i would
> say you these operc's are from the Turbinidae family, and probably from the
> Prisogaster genus, it would be interesting know, if possible, where they
> collect it, because according to the date you put, the Inca empire was
> starting, and probably that is work of a Pre-inca culture.
>
>  I wish this will be useful for you, i will try to ask to some archaeologist
> friends, maybe they can give us a clue, about the use of the object itself.
>
>  Best Regards,
>  Eduardo Palacios Pereyra
> http://www.sorcierhosting.com/pututu/
>
> On 4/23/07, Jass, Joan < [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > I have been asked by a Museum Studies student to help with identification
> of shell material used on an object from our arachaeological collection from
> Peru, dated about in a range that goes up to 1400 AD.  The shell material
> consists of shiny white operculae <5 mm long, looking in overall shape and
> spiral pattern something like Astraea but not exactly matching anything in
> our mollusk collection or illustrations in the second edition of Keen that
> we have here.
> >
> > If anyone has any suggestions for further tracking down the identification
> of this shell material, we would very greatly appreciate it.
> >
> > Joan Jass, Invertebrate Zoology, Milwaukee Public Museum
>
>

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