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Ivory powder flasks from the Mughal period

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Handicrafts of West Bengal

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The meaning of the cowrie in Bastar

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Gabriel, Hannelore 

Shell jewelry of Himalayan and sub-Himalayan areas

Ornament, 1985, 8(4):51-55 

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Shell jewelry of the Nagas

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Herle, Anita 

Naga body decoration: continuity and change

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Mehta, Rustam J. 

The Handicrafts and Industrial Arts of India

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The Cowrie Shell Miao of Kweichow. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaelogy and Ethnology, Harwvard University, vol. XXXiii, no. 1

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Samkha, the sacred conch

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Crafts of West Bengal

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1979