This category includes shells that are used to hold pigments. 

Objects: Cosmetic Shells Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
12430 (none) (none) (none) Cockle shells containing green pain. Found with the bodies in the death pit.
12665C (none) (none) (none) Group: [A] (1) Shell rings. Edge of skirt? [B] (2) Bracelet of small beads: lapis balls, carnelian rings and bugles, and one square carnelian with bleached bands. [drawing] [C] (3) Cockle shell with green paint.
13539A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 cockle shells. Traces of greenish and yellowish paint.
13559A (none) 1930,1213.395 (none) [A-AN] Cockle shells. 30 to 40. Faint traces of paint, greenish, yellow ochre, brown, red.
13787 (none) (none) (none) Cockle shells. Containing green, black, yellow, and reddish-brown paint.
14001A (none) 1930,1213.390 (none) [A-B] Pair of cockle shells containing yellow ochre paint and a second containing green.
14032 (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 cockle shells. Containing green paint.
14039 (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 pairs cockle shells. Green & yellow paint.
14239A (none) (none) (none) [A-F] 6 cockle shells. Containing bluish green & yellow paint.
7984B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair of cockle-shells. Containing white pigment.
8281B (none) (none) (none) [A-F] Six cockle shells. One containing black paint. Two containing green paint.
8281C (none) (none) (none) [A-F] Six cockle shells. One containing black paint. Two containing green paint.
8281D (none) (none) (none) [A-F] Six cockle shells. One containing black paint. Two containing green paint.
8281E (none) (none) (none) [A-F] Six cockle shells. One containing black paint. Two containing green paint.
8281F (none) (none) (none) [A-F] Six cockle shells. One containing black paint. Two containing green paint.
8312B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 cockle shells containing traces of [A] green and [B] black pigment respectively.
8345A.2 (none) 1928,1009.416 (none) [A.1 and A.2] 2 cockle shells. Containing green paint.
8378B (none) (none) (none) [A-F] Cockle shells. 3 pairs. Containing paints.
8378C (none) (none) (none) [A-F] Cockle shells. 3 pairs. Containing paints.
8514B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Cockle shells. Two pairs containing paint (green).
9676B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Cockle shells. [B] One filled with white pigment.
9728B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Cockle shells. (2) Containing green paint.
9732B (none) (none) (none) [A-B]2 Cockle Shells. Containing black paint.
10360B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Cockle shells One containing black paint, the other green paint
10374B (none) (none) (none) [A-D] 2 Pairs of Cockle shells. Black and green paint.

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