Cowry shell collection
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
Unknown
Materials
Shell
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1304654
Summary
A collection of twenty seven cowrie shells. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Egerton collection devised to the National Trust in 1960 by Maurice, 4th Baron Egerton of Tatton (1874-1958).